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Peter and His Companions Were Weighed Down With Sleep
By The Rev. Sherry Crompton February 14, 2010 Read: Luke 9:28-43a Today we stand as onlookers with Peter and John and James on a special experience – a mysterious experience. Jesus and three of his disciples had gone to a mountain to pray. The weary disciples at some point fall asleep – but Jesus continues in prayer, he continues to prepare himself for the events that lie just before him, his trip up the road to Jerusalem, his trip towards…
Love is Patient, Love is Kind
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton January 31, 2010 Read: Luke:21-30 & 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Today we hear that well-known piece of the scripture where Jesus says that “no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown.” We understand that on a surface level, but there is so much more going in this story. Jesus had just read from the book of Isaiah and is giving us the pronouncement that today that scripture has been fulfilled. The Isaiah reading proclaimed good…
We Shall Overcome
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton January 24, 2010 Read: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a “I would have made a good evangelist,” said Sally to Linus. “You know that kid who sits behind me at school? I convinced him that my religion is better than his religion.” “How’d you do that?” asked Linus. “I hit him with my lunch box.” Somewhere inside all of us there is a longing to hit each other with our lunch boxes. We tend to shy away…
Our Lives are Changed by Baptism
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton January 10, 2010 Read: Isaiah 43:1-7 and Luke 3:5-17 21-22 I don’t know where to begin with today’s scripture readings. Today we celebrate the Baptism of our Lord. Jesus went to be baptized by John the Baptist. And after he and the crowd were baptized he prayed, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven saying, “You are my…
Look Where Miracles Happen
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton January 3, 2010 – Epiphany Read: Matthew 2:1-12 We are celebrating Epiphany today because it is a church holiday that is rich in meaning. Epiphany is actually January 6th – marking the 12th day after Christmas. In many parts of the world, Epiphany is a bigger holiday than Christmas, with rituals of gift giving tied to treasure-bearing wise men instead of a jolly fat man in a red suit. In some places, children leave…
The Light of Hope Shines on Us
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton December 24, 2009 – Christmas Eve A student at The University of Georgia got a job as a disc jockey at a little radio station in commerce, Georgia. He also got a room at a hotel in town and commuted to school, which was not far away. Sometimes at night, he would crawl out of his window and sit on the roof of the hotel. He would look out over that little town. One…
Not Safe, But Good
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton December 13, 2009 Read: Luke 3:7-18 John has some harsh words to say this morning. First he addresses the crowd – those people who went out of their way to travel into the wilderness to see him and hear him – by calling them a “brood of vipers”. How would you like to be called a viper? And notice it is a brood – in other words, children. Children of snakes he says. And…
Prepare the Way of the Lord
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton December 6, 2009 Read: Baruch 5:1-9 and Luke 3:1-6 From Baruch: “For God has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be made low and the valleys filled up, to make level ground, so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God”. From Luke’s gospel: “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and…
Our Own Soul Song
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton November 22, 2009 (Christ the King Sunday) Read: John 18:33-37; Revelation 1:4b-8 Well, it’s the last Sunday in the season of Pentecost and next week we begin the season of Advent. Advent is the beginning of the church calendar year. Today is a Sunday of endings and new beginnings. Today is also traditionally known as Christ the King Sunday. Christ the King – another contrast. A contrast between what we tend to view as…
Our Contributions Change the World
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton November 8, 2009 Read: Mark 12:38-44 and Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17 Widows are prominent in today’s readings from scripture. Both Naomi and Ruth were widowed and lived a difficult life until Ruth found a partner in Boaz. As widows, they were subjected to the oppression of their times. And in Mark we hear about the scribes who ‘devour widows’ houses’ – more oppression – and then the example of the poor widow who puts two…
Losing Someone We Care About
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton November 1, 2009 (All Saints Sunday) Read: John 11:32-44; Revelation 21:1-6a and Isaiah 25:6-9 Most of us know what it’s like to lose someone we care about. And in today’s gospel story we hear about Lazarus, who had died. We hear about tears. There are tears in our reading from Isaiah, there are tears in our reading from Revelation where God wipes away the tears…and there are lots of tears in John’s gospel. In…
The Emptiness of Success
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton October 11, 2009 Read: Job 23:1-9, 16-17 and Mark 10:17-31 Today’s readings are centered on our relationship with our Creator God. We hear from Job in his distress because he cannot sense the presence of God. The psalm is that one we also hear in Lent, “my God, my God, why have you forsaken me”. Again the sense of hidden, absent God. In our gospel reading from Mark we hear how difficult it is…