Y’All Ain’t Gonna Believe This! – Sermon for Pentecost Sunday – May 19, 2013
Fr. Funston’s sermon for Pentecost Sunday, May 19, is now available on line at the Rector’s blog: I was told once that there is a difference between Yankee fairy tales and Northern fairy tales, and the difference is found in the way they begin. Yankee fairy tales start off, “Once upon a time . . [...]
One of Those Weeks (Salvation Belongs to Our God) – Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Easter – April 21, 2013
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the 4th Sunday of Easter is now on line: That’s one of the Good News lessons for today, for this week, I think. Jesus asks us to pray for and forgive those who do us wrong, but if we can’t, he can do it for us. We don’t need the fancy [...]
Going Fishing, Finding Grace – Sermon for the Third Sunday of Easter – April 14, 2013
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the Third Sunday of Easter is now online: The two stories from Scripture today teach us the same lesson. Jesus comes to us when and where and as we are able to understand and appreciate him, gently to some, more aggressively to others. But however he comes, he comes. We call [...]
Lord, I Believe; Help Thou My Unbelief – Sermon for “Thomas Sunday” (Easter 2) – April 7, 2013
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter (April 7, 2013) is now available online: Belief is one of those ambiguous words that can mean so many things. In the creedal sense, it means to give intellectual assent to a stated proposition. “Do you believe in God?” in this sense means do you accept [...]
Monstrous Relief – Sermon for Resurrection Sunday – March 31, 2013
Fr. Funston’s sermon for Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013, now available on line: Only a poet like John Updike could use the word monstrous to describe the Resurrection of Christ and, in spite of its shock value, or perhaps because of it, it is the perfect word, an ambiguous word that captures the essence of [...]
Ambassadors of Christ: Welcoming the Prodigal – Sermon for the Fourth Sunday in Lent – March 9, 2013
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the 4th Sunday in Lent is now available online: Reconcile is an interesting word. It has three parts, actually to prefixes and a base verb, all from the Latin. The base verb is calare (or cilire in this combined form); it means to call. The first prefix is “con-” which means [...]
Reverence and Intimacy: The Burning Bush – Sermon for the Third Sunday in Lent – March 3, 2013
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the Third Sunday of Lent, March 3, 2013, is now available on-line: There is a tension at work in this story: God commands Moses to keep his distance as a matter of reverence and respect, but also to do this thing which fosters personal vulnerability and intimacy. Moses is told not [...]
A Promise Beyond the Horizon – Sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent – February 24, 2013
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the Second Sunday of Lent is now online at the Rector’s blog: In Chapter 12 of the Book of Genesis, Abram is told by God to leave his home in Ur and travel to a land that God will give to him and to his offspring, and that God will make [...]
The Ash Wednesday Exhortation – Sermon for the First Sunday in Lent – February 17, 2013
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the First Sunday in Lent is now posted at his blog: In The Book of Common Prayer on page 264 you’ll find the beginning of the liturgy for Ash Wednesday. If you were here on that day which marks the beginning of this season we call Lent, or in another church [...]
The Gift that Changes Everything – Sermon for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany – February 3, 2013
Fr. Funston’s sermon on February 3 was unscripted. In place of that sermon, we link to an excellent sermon by Fr. David Romanik of Church of the Heavenly Rest in Abilene, Texas. As we all know, Paul is not particularly impressed with the way the Corinthians are living in community; they don’t seem to be [...]
