Sermons from April 2011
Happy Easter!
By The Rev. Sherry Crompton Easter Sunday – April 24, 2011 John 20:1-18 “Is it true?” Is it true? This is the question that Karl Barth, one the great theologians, says brings people to worship. Is it true that God lives and gives us life? Is it true that God not only established a routine, what we call the laws of nature, but that one day God broke the routine and somehow raised Jesus from the dead? Is it true…
God’s Timing Is Not Our Timing
By The Rev. Sherry Crompton April 10, 2011 Read: John 11:1-45 The Lenten journey, which has taken us through the Valley of the Shadow of Death last Sunday, now leads us to the dry bones of Ezekiel and the tomb of Lazarus and the gift of life out of death. This morning’s gospel story began a few weeks earlier. The brother, Lazarus, was taken ill. We have no details, but the illness frightened his two sisters so much that they…
Neither This Man Nor His Parents Sinned
By The Rev. Sherry Crompton April 3, 2011 Read: John 9:1-41 This is another long gospel story this morning and I can’t begin to touch on all that’s here. But, sinfulness is a theme that runs through this powerful story. The Pharisees discuss Jesus’ sinfulness in several verses. In v. 34, they return to the sinfulness of the man born blind, with another reference to his birth in sin. But the story ends with Jesus’ condemnation of the Pharisees, whose…