Ascension Written Sermons

The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost Proper 24 Year C Luke Luke 18:1-8 The Rev. Brett P. Backus (The following is transcribed from a sermon given without a script and is not an exact copy.) "And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?" So in seminary there was this joke or play on words that students would say in times of high stress, when it was exam time or time to turn in a lot of papers. Instead of saying "it's time to go to the seminary," they would say, "it's time to go to the cemetery." What a great way to view your theological education! And I think that they had this joke because seminary is an intense place and in a way this saying held a lot of truth for them. Ironically, and surprisingly, this joke or play on words ended up ringing much more true for me than I ever would have expected. This is because I can honestly say that I have never felt so lost, in such a dark place spiritually, or so far away from...

Eighteenth Sunday after the Pentecost Sermon – 8:00 & 10:30 Text: Jeremiah 29:1,4-7, Psalm 66:1-11, 2 Timothy 8:8-15, Luke 17:11-19 Fr. Robert P. Travis Well it's 10/10/10 today a fact of which many of you are aware. What is the significance? Well, not much, as far as I'm concerned, though it is neat that this only happens every hundred years. I read somewhere that many churches have noticed, that this happening on a Sunday will not happen for another 400 years, so they took that as a sign to preach on the Ten Commandments. We are bound, thankfully, to a lectionary, so the odd date having spiritual significance is not present in our readings today. Or is it. . . More significant to me, in preparing to preach to you all today was the fact that we are thinking about Stewardship now, in fact, some people have already turned in pledge cards for 2011, though we're not asking you to do that, until November 7th, when we will present our pledges on the altar. That fact made...

Copies of Amy Morehouses' sermon from 10/3 are available from her on request. Email requests to deaconamy@knoxvilleascension.org .