Christmas Eve Text

Our final assignment was to create a worship calendar for Advent and write one sermon from that season.  I chose Christmas Eve and here is the quite familiar text for that sermon, Luke 2:1-20 in the NRSV translation.

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Maundy Thursday Sermon

Do You Know Where Your Towel Is? We have come tonight to remember.  Through the forty days of Lent we have been preparing for this holy week as we remember Christ’s life.  Still to come are Jesus’ betrayal, capture, crucifixion, and resurrection.  But tonight is a special night.  Tonight is Maundy Thursday, when we remember [...]

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Maundy Thursday Questions

Why does Jesus only wash their feet?  What does it mean that if one has bathed, then you are clean except for your feet?  Really, this all boils down to one question.  What’s so special about feet? What does Jesus mean when he says that if he doesn’t wash Peter’s feet, then Peter has no [...]

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Maundy Thursday Text

Our third sermon assignment was to preach a sermon with a Lenten theme. We did not have to pick a text from the Lenten time of the calendar but I felt that would be easier.  After searching through the various options, I eventually settled on Maundy Thursday. Here is Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, John [...]

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Jonah Sermon

Seeing the Big Picture We all know the story of Jonah, right?  God calls Jonah to preach to the city of Nineveh.  Jonah is reluctant and so tries to escape God’s call on his life.  In the process, he ends up getting swallowed by a fish and eventually makes it to the city where he [...]

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Jonah Musings

One thing that makes Jonah difficult to preach, in my opinion, is that it’s a familiar story from Sunday School.   Most people feel as though they know the Jonah story.  Hears God, runs away, swallowed by a fish.  There’s nothing to add.  So a sermon on Jonah, by its nature, will have to work a [...]

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Jonah Text

For our midterm we were given a series of challenging texts and told to write a sermon from one of them.  Some were troubling, like Sacrifice of Isaac, while others were odd, like Demetrius the silversmith (Go look that one up- Acts 19:23-41).   All of them represented difficult texts to preach.  I chose a passage [...]

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