Listen to Reading and Sermon 1O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Audio reading and sermon (http://sunshinecathedral.org/sermons/audio/20100307_6.mp3)
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1O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Audio reading and sermon (http://sunshinecathedral.org/sermons/audio/20100307_6.mp3)
Listen to Readings and Sermon Lent 3 The Good News Written Isaiah 55.10-12a (NRSV) For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my [...]
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Lent 3
The Good News Written
Isaiah 55.10-12a (NRSV)
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace.
Wayne Dyer:
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
Luke 13:1-9 (NRSV)
1At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? 3No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. 4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them — do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.”
6Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. 7So he said to the gardener, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?’ 8He replied, ‘Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. 9If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”
The Good News Proclaimed
Preached by the Reverend Doctor Durrell Watkins at the Sunshine Cathedral on Sunday, March 7, 2010.
I love that old song, There’ll Be Some Changes Made…
“There’ll be a change in the weather and a change in the sea; from now on there’ll be a change in me. My walk will be different, my talk and my name; nothing about me’s going to be the same.
I’m going to change my way of living and if that ain’t enough, I’ll even change the way that I strut my stuff…”
Today’s scripture readings challenge us to make changes… deep, internalized changes that are meant to then effect change in the world around us. The kind of change that disrupts what we thought we knew… that strips away comfort upon which we have long depended… because only radical change will change lives and only changed lives will change the world. Continue reading »
