Sermons from July 2010

By The Rev. Sherry Crompton July 25, 2010 Luke 11:1-13 Did you listen to the scripture readings this morning? Wasn’t our first reading from Hosea a little uncomfortable? God is telling a prophet, Hosea, to take a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom. What is that? Well God is comparing the people of Israel to whores….that God’s people have turned away and are worshipping idols instead of God. If we keep reading the verses following, some that are…

By The Rev. Sherry Crompton July 18, 2010 Read: Luke 10:38-42 When Jesus decided to drop in on Martha and her sister Mary, Martha’s first impulse was to get something going in the kitchen. In doing this she was faithful to her tradition of hospitality begun long ago when Abraham welcomed three guests to his tent. I don’t see anything wrong with this? Do you? This piece of scripture is a difficult one to talk about because over the years…

By The Rev. Sherry Crompton July 11, 2010 Read: Luke 10:25-37 In Steinbeck’s classic, East of Eden, Liza Hamilton serves as the matriarch of faith for her family. She is a pugnacious advocate of biblical morality and reads the scriptures daily as the guide for her life. Yet there are cracks in her pious veneer. Steinbeck describes her use of the Bible in this way: Her total intellectual association was the Bible … In that one book she had her…

By The Rev. Sherry Crompton July 4, 2010 Read: Luke 10:1-22, 16-20 Happy Independence Day! This is the date on which we celebrate our declaration of independence from Great Britain. It was a unanimous declaration of the 13 united states of America. The most familiar part of the Declaration of Independence reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are…