Sermons from June 2007

By the Very Rev. Sherry CromptonJune 24, 2007Read: Luke 8:26-39 The Gerasene Demoniac. Stories like this in the Bible tend to make us uncomfortable in our day and age. The idea of demons or evil has been explained away by science and medicine in many cases. But evil is real. In the introduction to his book, the Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis says that the devil is equally pleased by two very different mistakes that people make. The first mistake…

By the Very Rev. Sherry CromptonJune 10, 2007Read: 1 Kings 17:17-24 and Luke 7:11-17 As Jesus was journeying on to a town called Nain, he approached the gate of the town, and saw that a man who had died was being carried out. Jesus discovered that this man was his mother’s only son and she was a widow. That information is very important to this story, because you see, widows in first century Judea were women on the margin of…

By the Very Rev. Sherry CromptonJune 3, 2007Read: John 16:12-15 and Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Last week we celebrated Pentecost and this week we celebrate another feast day, Trinity Sunday. The primary difference between Trinity Sunday and the rest of the year is that on this day we focus on God’s being rather than on God’s doing; on who God is rather than on what God has done. On this day, we turn from the “sacred story” to the sacred itself.…