Sermon, 15th Sunday after Trinity, 2024
Covetousness is, at its core, a distrust of God through an attempt to provide for ourselves. Yet we cannot make the sun rise or set, we cannot make it rain or shine, we cannot control the vast majority of what happens to us. So how exactly are we going to provide what we need for life? The virtue we need which opposes our greediness is justice – giving to all his due. The just person understands the relative value of things and does not clamor for that which cannot satisfy and which cannot save. God is our hope and strength, a very present help in trouble. God takes care of…
Sermon, 15th Sunday after Trinity, 2023
We had a couple of baptisms today! In this sermon, we review some of the basics of baptism and draw connections to the lessons of the day. In Galatians, St. Paul argues that the Christians is not under the Mosaic Law and therefore circumcision is not to be required of the Christian who now is sealed and signed by baptism. And Christ instructs us in today’s gospel lesson from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6, that those who are sealed in baptism must follow Christ with a singleness of mind. “No man can serve two masters. … Seek first the Kingdom of God, and all these things shall…