St. Paul's Memorial Church - St. Paul's Memorial Church, Charlottesville, VA
Sermons
10:00 AM Stewardship Sunday Sermon
The Stewardship Sunday Sermon preached at the 10:00 AM service.
8:00 AM Stewardship Sunday Sermon
The sermon preached on Stewardship Sunday at the 8:00 AM service.
A Rich Young Man
Today we have a gospel story we don’t think about very much. Oh, it’s familiar enough. It’s told in three of our gospels—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—and we all learned it as children. But none of us takes it very seriously, especially not here in church. If we did take it seriously, it might have some rather negative implications for our stewardship campaign, and then Sue Rainey and Jeff Gleason and Jack Bocock wouldn’t like us any more. It’s much easier just to downplay the whole story.The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
We have a variety of options in all of our relationships. Practicing mercy, forgiveness and integrity within marriage and other relationships rather than to set limits to increase our own advantage is a way to practice the presence of God.
Tribalism
The great sin of our time is tribalism. Perhaps it began seventeen years ago with the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Eastern Europe fragmented into a score of competing countries, and some of those—like Czechoslovakia—disintegrated into still smaller states. During the same period millions of Africans have been murdered in ongoing tribal conflicts, of which the one now occurring in Darfur is only the latest example. In Milan, many Italians want to break away from the rest of their country, some in Quebec are still trying to separate from Canada, and a few people in both Texas and Montana are dreaming of independence from the rest of us.More Articles...
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