There are a couple of Sundays I'd just as soon not preach. One is Trinity Sunday, the Sunday immediately following Pentecost. I've heard more than one priest say that the reason most of us want an assistant or a deacon is so that we can assign them the task of trying to explain how it is we believe in one God, in three persons, and so on. Clergy dislike of preaching on Trinity Sunday is pretty widespread. So-called, Stewardship Sunday is another. It feels to me like I'm singing for my supper. After all, besides the mortgage what costs a church the most? Clergy salaries. Plus, I can guarantee you that regardless of how many guests a church has had in the weeks leading up to Stewardship Sunday, there will be several that day and it will be the greeter's job to assure them that we don't talk …
Gouge-Your-Eye-Out Sunday
Mark 9:38-50
Mark 9:38-50
Sermon
by Rick McCracken-Bennett
by Rick McCracken-Bennett
CSS Publishing Co., Inc., Food, foretelling, followers, and fulfillment--Jesus on his way to Jerusalem: Cycle B sermons for Proper 14 through Proper 22, by Rick McCracken-Bennett