How We Want…, Proper 24 (B) – 2003
Oh, how we want to be important! How badly, how desperately, we want to be favored, to be loved, to be special. How much we want Mom or Dad to love us best (some of you will remember the old Smothers Brothers routines where Tommy says, “Mom always loved you best!”). Clearly, the disciples were…
SermonsSermons That WorkThe Season After Pentecost
Oct 19, 2003
Propio 20 (A) – 2017
En este mundo tan convulsionado en el que vivimos nos lastima grandemente todo lo que está sucediendo: inundaciones, feroces huracanes, hambre, sed, muertes, llanto, luto, dolor, desamparo, impotencia, injusticias, odio, desprecio, intolerancia y sufrimientos tanto ocurridos en la naturaleza, como producidos por nosotros, la excelencia de la creación de Dios: el ser humano. Y alguien…
SermonsSermons That WorkThe Season After Pentecost
Aug 23, 2017
Pascua 4 (C) – 2025
LCR: Hechos 9:36-43, Salmo 23, Revelación 7:9-17, San Juan 10:22-30 La Iglesia sigue celebrando el gozo que nos ha dado la resurrección de Cristo. Nos reunimos para celebrar a Jesús que se presenta como el buen pastor que conoce a sus ovejas y a quien ellas escuchan y siguen con la seguridad que manifiesta el…
EasterSermonsSermons That Work
May 6, 2025
Oraciones semanales relacionadas con el testimonio público – 21 de noviembre
Si Dios no fuera mi socorro, ya habitaría yo en el reino del silencio. Cuando decía « mi pie resbala », tu amor, Señor, fue mi sustento. En medio de mis ansiedades, tu consuelo me deleita. (Salmo 94:17-19) Acompáñenos cada semana mientras compartimos nuevas oraciones por las personas más vulnerables entre nosotros, por quienes afrontan desafíos,…
The Gate, Easter 4 (A) – 2020
[RCL]: Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:19-25; John 10:1-10 Even though we are in the season of Easter, our lives may still feel like one long Lenten discipline of social distancing and fighting illness. Even as we proclaim the truth of Easter resurrection, Good Friday’s shadow still looms long. We know that Jesus, the…
EasterSermonsSermons That Work
May 3, 2020
Responding, Easter Day (A) – 2023
[RCL] Acts 10:34-43 or Jeremiah 31:1-6; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Colossians 3:1-4 or Acts 10:34-43; John 20:1-18 or Matthew 28:1-10 Easter is one of those occasions on which most folks come to church already knowing the story. Due to their familiarity with the Easter narratives, some in our number might be tempted to let their minds…
EasterSermonsSermons That Work
Apr 3, 2023
Let Go Into Jesus, Tuesday in Holy Week – 2023
[RCL] Isaiah 49:1-7; Psalm 71:1-14; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31; John 12:20-36 Being there for one another in times of trouble is harder than it appears on the surface. We often define a friend as someone who will be there for us when we need them, but what does that really mean? Our first instinct when something…
Holy WeekSermonsSermons That Work
Mar 5, 2023
Pascua 3 (C) – 2013
Hoy, en este tercer domingo de Pascua, la palabra de Dios que hemos proclamado y escuchado está cargada de imágenes espectaculares nos motivan a seguir profundizando en el misterio de la resurrección del Señor Jesucristo, misterio que solo podemos entender y aceptar desde la fe, partiendo del testimonio de unos discípulos, testigos presenciales que compartieron…
EasterSermonsSermons That Work
Apr 14, 2013
Conflict Comes…, Epiphany 6 (B) – 2006
Conflict comes in the religious community as well as in the secular world! We have all heard of the inevitable collision between two ships on the sea traveling the same course toward each other. There is no time to change direction. So it is in our gospel lesson for today. Jesus’ action in showing compassion…
EpiphanySermonsSermons That Work
Feb 12, 2006