Rev. Dr. Les Martin Ash Wednesday 2025Rev. Dr. Les MartinIsaiah 58:1-12, 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:10, Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O God, our strength and deliverer. Amen. Ashes are what’s left. At the end of the night around the campfire, when the marshmallows are all gone. Ashes. When…
A circle of friends on pilgrimage for the love of God
A circle of friends on pilgrimage for the love of God
Sermons on 2 Corinthians
Rev. Doug Floyd Pentecost +7 2024Rev. Doug Floyd2 Corinthians 12:2-10 It’s vacation season. Folks are taking off by plane, by car, and some even by boat. I love a road trip. A few years back we drove with my friend Izaak out to Yellowstone. On our way back, we took the Lincoln Highway. The Lincoln Highway starts in Times Square, New York…
Rev. Dr. Les Martin Pentecost +6 2024Rev. Dr. Les MartinDeuteronomy 15:7–11, Psalm 112, 2 Corinthians 8:1–15, Mark 5:22–24, 35b–43 I am resolved to know nothing among you, but Christ Jesus and him crucified in the name of the living God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, if it was late autumn, instead of late June, I would look at these readings…
Pentecost +5Rev. Doug Floyd2 Corinthians 5 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2) We are created for glory. We are moving in and toward glory. In 2 Corinthians, Paul says that…
Pentecost +3Rev. Doug Floyd2 Corinthians 4:13-18 Thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.” – ISAIAH 57:15 We…
Pentecost +2Rev. Doug FloydDeuteronomy 5:6-21, 2 Corinthians 4:1-12, Mark 2:23-28 Today we have the privilege of revisiting the 10 Words from the book of Deuteronomy. Our Gospel reading recounts the disciples plucking heads of grain in a grainfield on the Sabbath. These readings draw me to revisit the glory and wonder of Sabbath-keeping. Over fifteen years ago, I was drawn to meditate…
TrinityRev. Doug FloydGenesis 1:1-2:3, Psalm 150, 2 Corinthians 13:5-14, Matthew 28:16-20 I was sitting in a Theology of Communication class in the early 90s, waiting to give my statement of faith. The professors had asked each of us to prepare our statement of faith and present it in class. We had two professors: one was an Episcopalian and the other was a…
Pentecost +6Rev. Doug FloydJuly 4, 2021Ezekiel 2:1–7, Psalm 123, 2 Corinthians 12:2-10, Mark 6:1-6 Facing our own weaknesses or limitations can be frustrating, discouraging. If you look back on your own life, you may see times where you had to face weaknesses. There maybe things that you could have done in the past that you…
Pentecost +4B 2021Rev. Doug FloydJob 38:1–18, Psalm 107, 2 Corinthians 5:14-21, Mark 4:35-41 The following quote is sketched onto the wall at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria: “If there is a god, he will have to beg for my forgiveness.” It speaks to the heart of the cry for justice in a world where…
Lent 4 2019St. Brendan’s Anglican ChurchRev. Doug FloydJoshua 4:19–5:12, Psalm 34, 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, Luke 15:11-32 In the early pages of Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, we encounter a coach transporting mail and passengers on a damp, foggy evening. A certain tension hangs in the air causing passengers, the coachman, and a guard…