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 [...]

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 – [...]

The Weekly Word for December 11 is WAITING

When I think about the word WAITING in mid-December, the first thing that comes along and wants to be written is about cheerful and eager waiting -

opening tiny glittery windows on an Advent calendar
stoking an inward smugness about gifts made (or bought) and stashed away
Christmas cards bought, stamps, address labels, and a snowstorm on its [...]

The World To Come

The Rev. Jonathan Hutchison’s sermon for Advent 1 , Year C – December 2, 2007
Isaiah 2:1-5
In this morning’s Collect for the Day, we prayed that Jesus, who once came to visit us in great humility, will someday, in the last day, “come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and [...]