Hope
Second Sunday of Advent, Year B Isaiah 40:1-11; Mark 1:1-8 The Reverend Richard Smith, Ph.D. [Watch a video of this sermon.] This past week, I was walking down Folsom Street with a swaggering young businessman. […]
SERMONS
Grieving with Hope
THE TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST November 12, 2017 The Rev. Dr. John H. Eastwood But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may […]
I tell you this to break your heart
21st Sunday after Pentecost The Rev’d Richard Smith, Ph.D. Proper 25 Sunday, October 29, 2017 Matthew 22:34-46 There were over 600 laws governing the day-to-day lives of ordinary Jews in the days of Jesus: how […]
The man without a wedding garment
19th Sunday after Pentecost The Rev’d Richard Smith, Ph.D. Proper 23 Sunday, October 15, 2017 Matthew 22:1-14 I’m pretty sure this gospel is not about what we think it is. There’s the old story of […]
Choose Your Own Adventure
Sunday, October 8, 2017 Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 22, Year A Matthew 21:33-46 The Rev’d Richard Smith, Ph.D Back in the nineties, grade school kids were reading Choose Your Own Adventure novels. These were […]