Sermons from October 2009
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…
Running Through a Field of Thorns – Marriage and Divorce
By The Very Rev. Sherry Crompton October 4, 2009 Read: Mark 10:2-16 Wow! Preaching about divorce and marriage is like running through a field of thorns, as my colleague Charles says. Why? Because any congregation today is likely to contain people who are married, people who are divorced, people who are divorced and remarried, people who may get divorced at some future time, people who have been treated shabbily by churches due to their marital difficulties, people whose lives and…