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December 15, 2008
Don’t Waste Time – Advent 2, Year B
A sermon by the Rev’d Jonathan Hutchison, December 7, 2008 – 2 Peter 3:8-15a
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town, and beats high mountain down. – The Hobbit
Some of you who are readers of Tolkien’s The Hobbit, will remember that this is [...]
December 15, 2008
Wake Up! Advent 1, Year B
A sermon by the Rev’d Jonathan Hutchison, November 30, 2008 – Mark 13:24-37
Today is the first Sunday of Advent (a word which means “coming”). Advent is traditionally observed in the Church as a season of preparation, not only for the birth of Jesus at Christmas, but also for the return of Christ in glory – [...]
December 15, 2008
The Compassionate Kingdom – Christ the King Sunday
A sermon in song offered by the Rev’s Jonathan Hutchison, November 23, 2008 – Matthew 25:31-46
Today is the festival of Christ The King, when the Church reflects on the authority of Christ as sovereign in the lives of his people. His authority includes (but is not limited to) the moral force of his teachings, his [...]
December 15, 2008
Risk Aversion and the Realm of God – Pentecost 27, Year A
A sermon by the Rev’d Jonathan Hutchison on November 18, 2008 – Matthew 25:14-30
Once again, the lectionary has given us several bible lessons with a lot to chew on. At the same time, God has given us just so much time for the meal and has endowed the preacher with just so many brains. There [...]
December 15, 2008
Megan’s Mystery – Pentecost 26, Year A
A sermon by Jonathan Hutchison on November 9, 2008 – Psalm 78:1-7
Today is a very special day in the life of the Church, of this congregation, and of one of our youngest members. Today, Megan Riley Young will receive the sacrament of Holy Baptism. Our Bible helps us understand why baptism is so special and [...]
October 21, 2008
Jonathan Hutchison’s 10/19/2008 sermon REFRAMING THE DEBATE
Pentecost 23, Year A – October 19, 2008
Matthew 22:15-22
Well, the political debates are over [pause here for thunderous applause]. Among the many observations offered by the Talking Heads and Op-Ed’s focused on the tendency of the candidates to artfully dodge the debate moderators’ questions, refusing (either directly or indirectly) to answer plainly, [...]
October 9, 2008
A Word for These Hard Times – Jonathan Hutchison’s sermon for September 28, 2008
Philippians 2:1-13
It has been a difficult couple of weeks. Industrial chemicals turned up in baby formula, pirates hijacked a shipload of heavy weapons, suicide bombers struck a hotel, a nuclear agreement fell apart, and air strikes brought more civilian casualties. Here at home, a hurricane slammed ashore, troop reductions slowed, a commuter train derailed, the [...]
July 10, 2008
Jonathan’s May 25, 2008 sermon DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY
Pentecost 2 Year A – Matthew 6:24-34
For years, one of the great pleasures of life was a long-running comic strip called “Bloom County”. It featured squabbling woodland creatures, several precocious children, an n’er-do-well playboy lawyer, a mangy hedonist cat and a neurotic flightless waterfowl named Opus. One of the children, Binkley by name, [...]
July 10, 2008
Jonathan’s June 22, 2008 sermon THE SWORD THAT CLEAVES AND HEALS
Pentecost VI, Year A – Matthew 10:24-39
It was exactly three years ago that we last grappled with this gospel lesson. Three years ago, we struggled together to make sense out of a text where God’s agent of reconciliation, the Prince of Peace, says, “I have not come to bring peace, but a [...]
