Sermons from February 2014
A Different Way to Relate to Each Other
By The Rev. Sherry Deets 7 Epiphany – February 23, 2014 Matthew 5:38-48 Turn the other cheek, go the extra mile and love your enemies. Have we heard these phrases so often that we don’t pay much attention to them? Are they simply niceties? Ideals? So if we are inclined to read over these familiar words too quickly, or if we want to dismiss these commands out of hand as pious idealisms, I’d urge us instead to slow down and…
The Church as a Bearer of Light
By The Rev. Sherry Deets Feast of the Presentation – February 2, 2014 Luke 2:22-40 Today we celebrate the presentation of Jesus in the temple. This feast occurs every year on February 2, the fortieth day after Christmas. Once every few years February 2 falls on a Sunday and so we can keep this celebration more fully than may be possible otherwise. Our Gospel from Luke recounts that forty days after his birth, Jesus is taken to the temple by…