All Souls Episcopal Church Sermons
Web Site: All Souls Episcopal Church
Total Sermons: 27
Find out how to link to All Souls Episcopal Church's sermons from your website or blog
The Holy Trinity God's gift to the Church
Today's sermon focuses on the three persons of the God head and how they are a mysterious gift to Christ's Bride, the Church.
0 Amens
Pentecost, the Gift of God the Holy Spirit to the Church and all believers
The Feast of Pentecost Pentecost is about the gift of God the Holy Spirit to Christ's Church and all who believe in Christ. As we accept Christ as Lord and Savior, God the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within the inner most depths of our souls. It is the fulfillment of the promise, Emmanuel, God is with us. But it is more for we are never alone. Nor our we left to our own devices and desire. As we chose to yield to God the Holy Spirit, we become more like Christ. HIs mercy and grace are reflected in us and through our lives.
0 Amens
Love as defined by God
Love is one of the fruits of the spirit as listed in Gal. 5:22ff. We have our own understanding of love. God has his own definition. God's love is perfect love our is not and neither is our understanding of love. So, today we examine our human understanding of love and contrast it with God's understanding of perfect love.
0 Amens
Abiding in the true Vine
What does it mean to abide in Christ? What does it mean to be fruitful and how does that relate to our concept of success and failure.
0 Amens
Christ the Good Shepherd
Christ came into the world so that we might have abundant life. He accomplished this by being the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep.
0 Amens
Christ said, "Peace be with you."
As we review the Resurrection of our Lord, we understand that Christ died for our sins and was raised for our justification. In our Collect for the 2nd Sunday of Easter, we learned that we are called to the Ministry of Reconciliation, the healing of broken relationships. This begins first with our relationship with God and then with others. The Apostles had betrayed and abandoned Christ during his arrest, trial, torture, and crucifixion. They stayed behind locked door for fear of the Jews...but also because they were overwhelmed with guilt and shame. The Lord appear and brings them not judgement nor condemnation but His peace. Something we all need.
0 Amens
The Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ
This is our Easter Sermon. It focuses on the reality of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and addresses why God took this action, what it accomplish, and why it matters what we believe.
0 Amens
The extravagant lengths God has gone through to save and redeem His people!
Numbers 21:4-9 Ephesians 2:1-10 John 3:14-21 Today's sermon focuses on the extravagant lengths God will go to in order to save His people. Even in our lesson from Numbers, after all the whining and complaining of the Israelites in the Wilderness, God saves His people from themselves. Many do not see the compassion, mercy, and grace of our Lord in the Old Testament, but it is there even though the Covenant is one of Law and not of Grace. As the Bronze Serpent was raised up, so is Christ in the New Testament to save us in Jesus' Day and Today. The one in the OT foreshadows the greater raising up that would have eternal results more than a physical healing. God is here and willing to go to extravagant lengths to save us from ourselves. This is a message of true and real hope based on our confidence in the God we worship and not based on our merit or any work we might do. Thanks be to God. Amen.
0 Amens
The World's view of the Christian Faith: in Jesus' Day, Paul's, and Today
In John's Gospel, the Cleansing of the Temple comes at the beginning of Jesus' ministry. In the other Gospels it comes at the end. John's point is that right at the beginning, Jesus was in conflict with the Religious leaders at his day. To put it mildly, they thought Jesus was crazy. Paul faced a similar challenge with the Gospel (Romans 7:13-25). The Gospel as centered in the Work of Christ on the cross was challenged by Jews, Greeks, and Gentiles. The Jews demanded a sign though given many were never satisfied. The Greeks relied on their intellect and logic. The Cross made no sense to them or the rest of the Gentile world. The question for us is it any different today? How does the world today judge the Christian Faith?
0 Amens
The Promises of God sound too good to be True!
We are told that if something sounds too good to be true it probably is! We are told to beware and not believe everything we are told or promised. If we apply this same logic and wisdom to God and His promises we are sure to miss out on wonderful blessings. Why? Because God's promises sound too good to be true. But they depend no on us, but on Him! They are True because He will bring them to past. We must be like Abraham, hoping against hope, and live in Faith and not be sight or human wisdom. We must decide who or what we put our trust in....
0 Amens