Sermon, Christmas Eve 2021
Sermon Delivered by Rev. Cristina Rathbone Grace Church Chapel and on Zoom Even Here Well, here we are — me gratefully with John, and Lee, and Ryan, and also with Robert who generously agreed to move our little laptop around so you can see us and we can see you better… And the first thing […]
Sermon December 5, 2021 Advent 2
Sermon delivered by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone Luke 3:1-6 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of […]
Sermon, November 28, 2021 Advent 1
Sermon delivered by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone Luke 21:25-36 Jesus said, “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for […]
Sermon, November 21, 2021
Sermon delivered by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone John 18:33-37 Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?” Pilate replied, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief […]
Sermon November 14, 2021
Sermon delivered by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone Mark 13:1-8 As he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!” Then Jesus asked him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down.” […]
Sermon, November 7, 2021
Sermon delivered by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone John 11:32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he […]
Sermon October 31, 2021
Sermon delivered by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone Mark 12:28-34 One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?” 29Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30you shall […]
Sermon October 24, 2021
The Rev. Curtis Almquist, SSJE Mark 10:46-52 [Jesus and his disciples] came to Jericho. As [Jesus] and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, “Jesus, […]
Sermon October 17, 2021
Sermon delivered by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone Mark 10:35-45 35James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” 36And he said to them, “What is it you want me to do for you?” 37And they said to him, […]
Sermon October 10, 2021
Text of Gospel & Sermon: Sermon delivered by the Rev. Cristina Rathbone October 10, 2021 Mark 10:17-31 17As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? […]