October 2020

Sermon for the Nineteenth Sunday of Pentecost – October 11, 2020

Texts: Isaiah 25:1-9; Philippians 4:1-9; Matthew 22:1-14 Probably many of you have played the game “Simon Says”. Just to refresh your memory, there’s a leader, who is Simon whose role is to call out instructions beginning with the words, “Simon says…” and everyone else has to do what they’re told. There’s a lot of movement and

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Sermon for the Eighteenth Sunday of Pentecost – October 4, 2020

Texts: Isaiah 5:1-7; Philippians 3:4b-14 In the middle of a courtyard bathed in the reflected light of golden stone a man stands alone. His clear voice floats an elegiac melody into the warm air. Modern expert musicologists would call his tonal range the Phrygian dominant scale. It’s common in Eastern European, Egyptian and Arabic music. But

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A Pastoral  Reflection, Our 27th week in official pandemic status – September 24, 2020

The wind started howling in the early hours of the day and soon evergreen branches, twigs, and leaves littered the streets.  The skies darkened and the rain fell in drenching waves.  The first storm of the autumn arrived, and more will follow. The power of storms is something that we often respond to emotionally and spiritually as

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