Given that I'm not really a lectionary preacher -- I'll check what's up in the Revised Common Lectionary, and preach from them when they sing to me, but I don't restrict myself to those texts covered by the RCL -- it seems like a good practice to keep track of what I'm preaching. Otherwise, I'd risk to preach an awful lot from, say, Isaiah and ( Read more... )

15 Sermons preached at Dorchester in 2011. These are the texts I preached on, with primary text for each sermon listed first on a line ( Read more... )

For Sunday, 6 November. The canoe story I might flush out later, but the gist of it is that one day last month I was out in my canoe, with my dog, watching the sunlight dance on the surface of the water, feeling peaceful, and all of a sudden a little rodent nose pierced the water right next to us and startled us: my little dog jumped and I jumped ( Read more... )

Today's sermon, on Joseph reuniting with his brothers. Mostly a manuscript sermon, although the end I never wrote up... I just sort of riffed on the Romans passage. ( Redemption. )

This morning's sermon was a revision of a sermon I preached this summer, with the middle gutted and retooled. If you've read my past sermons, you'll keep bumping into familiar bits.
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( Yearning )

I'm trying to get caught up on posting my manuscript sermons. This one is from, oh heck, August perhaps?

( abundance )

In my effort to keep track of everthing that's even vaguely a manuscript sermon, I'm posting something of today's from my notes. I didn't really preach from a full manuscript, though, so what's here isn't necessarily a true record... there are whole theads I'd woven through, which are now quite lost ( Read more... )

The manuscript version of today's sermon: ( simple, not easy. )

( Fear No Evil )

I'm for the most part trying to upload only my manuscript sermons -- it's hard to upload a no-notes sermon without a video of it! This one's almost entirely a manuscript sermon, although at the very end it breaks into some almost-poetry I just riffed off of. :)

From January 2008, actually written for supply. ( Beloved )