Matthew ch 10:vs 40-42

40 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41 Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; 42 and whoever gives even a cup of cold wat...

The absence of hospitality and affirmation block the kingdom of God.

            Bishop Yvette Flunder at the Festival of Homiletics 2017

The absence of hospitality and affirmation block the kingdom of God.

         Bishop Yvette Flunder at the Festival of Homiletics 2017

 

We need to build wells not walls.

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The following is my sermon from yesterday's Sunday service for May 7th.

 

4th Sunday of Easter…Homily

Title: How do we treat our own sheep?

 

Our Scripture passage this morning is from...

“This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”

(Gospel of Matthew ch 17 vs 5)

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

― Charles Dickens

This is the great line from Dicken’s classic and my favorite Christmas show “A Christmas Carol”. It is the story of Ebeneezer Scrooge whose heart has been corrupted ...

I was often criticized during the struggle to end apartheid for being "political" and told by people in and out of church that our place was to be concerned with religious matters. But we were being "religious" not political. It was because we were obeying the imperatives of our faith.

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There are seven sacraments in the Catholic Church…well actually seven for men and six for women as ordination is not open to women. Let that s...

In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him ho...

In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted El...