Carlos Wilton, September 30, 2012; 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B; Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22; Revelation 19:11-20:5 “Then Queen Esther answered, ‘If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me — that is my petition — and the lives of my people — […]
Carlos Wilton, September 16, 2012 – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B; Mark 8:27-38 “For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?” Mark 8:36 “The world breaks everyone,” writes Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms, “and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” Imagine a […]
Carlos Wilton, September 9, 2012; Non-Lectionary Sermon; Exodus 7:1-13; Matthew 14:22-33 “[Peter] cried out, ‘Lord, save me!’ Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, ‘You of little faith, why did you doubt?’” Matthew 14:30b Our topic today, from the Banned Questions About the Bible book, is “Where Are the Miracles […]
Carlos Wilton, September 2, 2012 – Non-Lectionary Sermon; Genesis 19:1-12, 24-25; John 8:2-11 “When they kept on questioning Jesus, he straightened up and said to them, ‘Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’” John 8:7 Jesus and his disciples heard the commotion before the small, […]