Sermons from March 2012

By The Rev. Sherry Deets 5 Lent – March 25, 2012 John 12:20-33 “Sir, we wish to see Jesus”. That is what struck me in today’s gospel reading from John. Don’t we all wish to see Jesus? My friend speaks of a family picnic. “We went out to one of these lovely state parks; and the water was so green, so blue green as it is around here on the high mountain streams. The water came tumbling down that white…

By The Rev. Sherry Deets 4 Lent – March 18, 2012 Numbers 21:4-9 and John 3:14-21 “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness” (v. 14). The story is from Numbers 21:4-9, and every Jewish child knows it. The Israelites sinned by grumbling against God for bringing them out of Egypt into the wilderness. God punished them with a plague of fiery serpents, killing many Israelites. The Israelites confessed their sin and begged for mercy, so God…

By The Rev. Sherry Deets 3 Lent – March 11, 2012 John 2:13-22 Last Sunday’s text focused on the Lenten question, “what does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?” Today’s text focuses on the question “what does it mean to be the church of Jesus?” To a faithful Jew, the temple was sacred space, the dwelling place of God on earth. It was a magnificent place. In a futile effort to win over his “ungrateful” subjects, Herod the…

Propterea sicut per unum hominem in hunc mundum peccatum intravit et per peccatum mors et ita in omnes homines mors pertransiit in quo omnes peccaverunt.