The Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B, May 10, 2009
Acts 8:26-40 / Psalm 22:24-30 / 1 John 4:7-21 / John 15:1-8
Looking over the readings for this Sunday, I’m immediately brought up short by this line in the Collect, that prayer that summarizes – or collects – the themes of our scriptures: “Grant us so perfectly [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Deborah’
May 13, 2009
“Perfection” – Deborah Hutchison’s sermon, 5/10/2009
April 24, 2009
The Darkest Night – Deborah Hutchison’s sermon, Maundy Thursday 2009
Together, in the dimming of this darkest night, we build the Body that will be broken and mended, food and feeding, love and lover a thousand thousand thousand times before the story is through.
June 12, 2008
Deborah Hutchison’s Confirmation sermon – Coming of Age
A Service of Confirmation May 10, 2008
Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 1 [...]
June 11, 2008
The Weekly Word for June ll is Fear of the Lord
Contemporary mystic Annie Dillard writes this about Sunday worship: “Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke?…we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offence, or [...]
April 29, 2008
The Weekly Word for April 30 is GLORY
Just the other morning, the view through our east-facing living room window was a luminous montage of blooming branches – red bud, dogwood, viburnum, the last of the forsythia – woven through with the tender green of new leaves, all sparkling with dew and back-lit by the newly risen sun. Goldfinches, blue jays, purple [...]
March 25, 2008
RESURRECTION FROGS – An Easter Sunday 2008 sermon by Deborah Pender Hutchison
Easter Sunday, Year A – March 23, 2008
Jeremiah 31:1-6, Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24, Colossians 3:1-4, Matthew 28:1-10
“So they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy…” (Matthew 28:8)
We moved to Brown County twenty-two years ago from the high deserts of northern New Mexico. We moved at the beginning of February. [...]
March 18, 2008
The Weekly Word for March 19 – CROSS
Ancient — incised in the walls of European stone-age cave dwellings; scraped on rocks in the American southwest by the long gone Anasazi.
Primal — after circles, one of the first symbols drawn by the children of most cultures. Dividing the world into four quadrants and the four cardinal directional points. Holding [...]
March 3, 2008
The Eyes of the Heart – A Sermon by Deborah Pender Hutchison
Fourth Sundy in Lent, Year A – March 2, 2008
1 Samuel 16:1-13 | Psalm 23 | Ephesians 5:8-14 | John 9:1-41
“But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature…for the Lord does not see as mortals see; [...]
February 10, 2008
Deborah Hutchison’s 2/10/2008 Sermon, “The Power to Choose”
First Sunday in Lent, Year A, February 10, 2008
Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7, Psalm 32, Romans 5:12-19, Matthew 4:1-11
On this first Sunday in Lent, our readings present us with two temptation stories. In the garden, humanity fails the test. In the wilderness, Jesus passes with flying colors. In our epistle, the apostle Paul tries [...]
January 19, 2008
Down In the Water To Pray
Deborah Pender Hutchison’s sermon for The First Sunday after the Epiphany, The Baptism of Our Lord, January 8, 2008
Isaiah 42:1-9
Psalm 29
Acts 10:34-43
Matthew 3:13-17
It has always jolted me the way we fast-forward in the season of Epiphany from the infant Jesus adored by the Magi one Sunday to the thirty-year-old Jesus being immersed by [...]
