You might, if you are the sort of person who likes the world to be orderly, have noticed that something has changed in the service this week. For most of the year we have been reading from Mark’s gospel – more or less in order when the festival seasons don’t demand something else, but here we are, on an ordinary Sunday, reading…
St. James' Episcopal Church – Mt. Airy, Maryland
Sermons on July 2015
It is tempting, this Sunday, to skip the disturbing gospel lesson and the bizarre rhetoric of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians and focus on the simple story of the establishment of David as king over all of Israel and Judah in the first reading. There are resonances between David’s choice of Jerusalem as his…
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20) Before I say anything,…