Sermon preached by The Rev. Peter Elvin, October 26, 2014
At A Celebration of New Ministry for The Rev. Dr. Janet Zimmerman Holy One, fill the hollow of words and hearing. By your Spirit, make fit both speaking and listening. Fit us for your service, Creator, Redeemer, Guide. Janet, just being asked to preach today is a deep honor. When I told the Vestry where proposed […]
Give to God the things that are God’s
October 19, 2014 by The Rev. Dr. Janet W. Zimmerman The Pharisees send their disciples along with the Herodians to try to “entrap” Jesus. This group makes a strange team. On the one hand you have the Pharisees who are the leaders of the temple. They are the people charged with interpreting and teaching about […]
Where do we find God?
Sermon preached October 12, 2014 by The Rev. Janet Zimmerman, PhD Most of us can remember where we were on September 11. Some of us may have been in New York City on that horrible day when men flew planes into the World Trade Center to strike terror into the heart of our people in […]
Sunday, September 28, 2014
“By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?” Matthew 21:23-32, Philippians 2: 1-13 Before we can begin to talk about our passage today from Matthew’s Gospel we need to back up and look earlier in the gospel story. Jesus rides into the city of Jerusalem on the back of a […]
Sunday, September 21, 2014
You also go into the vineyard. We had only recently joined a large downtown parish in Austin Texas with our three young sons, when the Rector invited Sey and me to consider teaching the 3rd grade Sunday Morning class. I wasn’t at all sure this was my ministry. I taught all week at the university […]