This sermon by St. John Henry Newman is a masterpiece of rhetoric, which richly evokes theology and history to prophesy a new growth and re-flowering of the Church — correctly, as it happens.
Drunk on the Eve of the Reconstruction
Dr. Charles G. Adams
Dr. Adams preaches on Genesis 9:20-21 and discusses how we become drunk on many things besides wine, like preoccupation with self. We may be physically sober but morally woozy.
Gifts of the Spirit…to Us
Ruth Brunk Stoltzfus
This sermon comes from the collection Weaving Wisdom: Sermons by Mennonite Women, ed. Dorothy Yoder Nyce.
Your Plans, God’s Plans
Tim Keller
Tim Keller explores the guides God does – not necessarily “gives” and purchases for us – and how that guidance affects man’s choices.
Ash Wednesday Sermon – Repent
Pope Saint Clement I
This sermon comes from the Office of Readings for Ash Wednesday at the beginning of the season of Lent, which traditionally prepares the Church for Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Transfigured Moments
Vernon Johns
This sermon by Vernon Johns is the first published sermon by an African American preacher to appear in Joseph Fort Newton’s “The Best Sermons of the Year,” in 1926. In this sermon, Johns challenges the listener to embrace truth and use that truth as a tool for liberation and leadership.
Practicing Who We Are
Mark Labberton
We hope for the promised land, but what does it mean to live as strangers in a strange land? Labberton opens up the book of Daniel that is instructive for us as we face the “gritty challenges” of a place that looks more like exile than promise. We are called to remember — and practice — who we are, even amidst other forces that seek to shape who we are.
True Yieldedness and the Christian Community of Goods
Peter Walpot
In this 1577 piece by Peter Walpot, we see one of the hallmarks of Anabaptist practice, economic sharing. Economic sharing here is more than simply imitation of the apostolic practice, as seen in Acts 2 and Acts 4, but a spiritual therapy designed to counter the spiritual evils of greed and consumerism.
Homily at the U.S. Capitol Mall
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II delivers a homily marked by a steadfast commitment to christian virtues like courage and hope in the face of cynicism and false narratives which undermine the dignity of the human person and the good of society. His sermon speaks boldly and with confidence in the good news of the Word of God and the hope that the Christians have to offer society in a life joyfully lived for Christ.
Taking It Outside
John Clair
Suddenly it seems everyone would rather simply “take it outside.” We saw these images in almost every city and town in America. Images of violence in exchange or action, splattered across the national news in waves not seen in decades. A key job of the police, and one that other citizens are less well-equipped to do, is to do what people don’t have the time or temperament or training to do when they are in a mood to take it outside. That is to find out what actually happened: to investigate.