March 13, 2022 Genesis 15:1-12,17-18Philippians 3:17-4:1Luke 13:31-35Psalm 27 https://youtu.be/CPU2Gtdq9iU
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Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Isaiah 53:4-12Psalm 91:9-16Hebrews 5:1-10Mark 10:35-45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLq-H3ZUXWs Here we are. Here we are, together. Just like we planned. We last worshipped in this space, together, what was it? Two weeks ago, three weeksago? And now everything is back to normal. Right? Well, that was how it was supposed to go. I remember us saying toContinueContinue reading “Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Third Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Ezekiel 17:22-24Psalm 92:1-4,11-142 Corinthians 5:6-10,[11-13],14-17Mark 4:26-34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5oaFUkQDlE
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Deuteronomy 18:15-201 Corinthians 8:1-13Mark 1:21-28Psalm 111 What do you expect it to be like when you meet Jesus? And then: what is it like when you actually meet Jesus? We are early on the Gospel of Mark. Mark is the shortest Gospel, it is probably the oldest, and it is the one that tellsContinueContinue reading “Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Second Sunday after Christmas by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Jeremiah 31:7-14 Ephesians 1:3-6,15-19a Matthew 2:13-15,19-23 Psalm 84 or 84:1-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9sq1tVCigo&feature=youtu.be My public school career began a handful of years before the video cassette became commonplace. And so my early experience with watching films in a classroom featured a member of the AV Club rolling a cart with a projector on it into theContinueContinue reading “Second Sunday after Christmas by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Zephaniah 1:7,12-18Psalm 90:1-121 Thessalonians 5:1-11Matthew 25:14-30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9xn7L3TNIE&feature=youtu.be Of all the stories that Jesus tells, there are few or maybe none that I find more confusing and more troubling than the one that we just heard. This is the story that is sometimes titled in Bibles: The Parable of the Talents. And I reckon thatContinueContinue reading “Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Jonah 3:10-4:11Psalm 145:1-8Philippians 1:21-30Matthew 20:1-16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMEhm_Nvn28&t=316s If you are listening to this sermon from California or the middle and southern part of Cascadia – Cascadia being that the massive watershed that extends from British Columbia down through Oregon – you have spent a good part of this week underneath an orange and terrifying sky.ContinueContinue reading “Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Jeremiah 28:5-9 Psalm 89:1-4,15-18 Romans 6:12-23 Matthew 10:40-42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-xzyVYvyE&t=4s Just before the climax of a great many books and movies and plays, there is a speech that changes everything. The speech comes at halftime at the big game or on the eve of the final battle or as the ragtag bunch of misfitsContinueContinue reading “Fourth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Trinity Sunday by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Genesis 1:1-2:4a 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Matthew 28:16-20 Psalm 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uPaZCwHRxs I don’t know about you, but I am exhausted. I am physically exhausted, emotionally exhausted, spiritually exhausted, full of grief. There has been so much loss and hurt and anxious uncertainty during this pandemic. To use the particular example of church, the appearanceContinueContinue reading “Trinity Sunday by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Acts 2:1-21 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 John 20:19-23 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FTmt3fOxAY It is the Feast of Pentecost and it is an overcast day in Portland, Oregon. The sermon that you are about to hear is one that I recorded several days ago and that I wrote several days before that. And while thereContinueContinue reading “Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”