Easter Sunday | March 31, 2024 | Mark 16:1-8 | Paula Murray | When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to…
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4 Lent | 10.03. 2024 | John 3:14-21 | Paula Murray | Recent commentary writers on John 3, this most loved and likely best-known biblical text, have called traditional, meaning orthodox, interpretations of the means and the reason Jesus came to save us as “historical romanticizing.” There is a fair amount of history in the Bible,…
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Fifth Sunday of Epiphany | February 4, 2024 | Mark 1:29-39 | Paula Murray | 29Immediately {Jesus} left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told Him about her. 31And He came and took her by the…
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SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT | December 10, 2023 | Isaiah 40:1-11; Mark 1:1-8-28 | Paula Murray | All Biblical citations are from the English Standard Version. Today’s Scripture readings are a rich feast for the soul, and the gentleman guiding us through this spiritual menu is yet another critical witness to the love that came…
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Reformation Sunday | October 29, 2023 | Romans 3:19-28; John 8:31-36 | Paula Murray | Romans 3:19-28 19Now we know that whatever the Law says it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20For by works of the…
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Ninth Sunday After Pentecost | July 30, 2023 | Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 | Paula Murray | 31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it…
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Eighth Sunday After Pentecost | July 23, 2023 | Mt 13:24-30, 36-43 | Paula Murray | 4{Jesus} put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and…
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Holy Trinity Sunday | June 4, 2023 | Mt 28:16-20 | Paula Murray | 16The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17And when they saw Him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 18And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has…
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Second Sunday of Easter | April 16, 2023 | John 20:19-31 | Paula Murray | A Sermon Based on John 20:19-31, by Paula Murray 19On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them…
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Fifth Sunday in Lent | March 26, 2023 | Ezekiel 37:1-14 and John 11:1-53 | Paula Murray | The forty-day season of the Church year that is Lent is variously described as a Christian boot camp, a journey with Jesus to the cross, and a time of deepening commitment to our Lord. However we describe it,…
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Second Sunday in Lent | March 5, 2023 | John 3:1-16 | Paula Murray | 3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one…
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1 Christmas, 2022 | 01.01.23 | Matthew 2:13-23 | Paula Murray | For the upcoming Sunday, we may use the texts assigned for Name of Jesus or 1 Christmas. I have used the latter, for even as we celebrate the Light sent into the world to relieve its darkness, so must we see the darkness…
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Pentecost 18 | October 9, 2022 | Ruth 1:1-18; Luke 17:11-19 | Paula Murray | Ruth 1:1-18 1 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. 2 The…
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11th Sunday after pentecost, 2022 | Hebrews 12:4-29 | by Paula Murray | Lord, Hear our Cry! Lord, hear our cry! Those words have been on our marquee, our sign out front, for the whole of the season of Pentecost. We do not mean cry as in sobbing or weeping, though that assuredly is a…
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2nd SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST | 19.06.22 | Luke 8:26-39 | Paula Murray | Lord, Hear our Cry! Jesus has had a busy week. It seems that way, anyway, to us who spent last Sunday in university and have come this Sunday to a rocky beach below a seemingly deserted cemetery. We were schooled last week…
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4th SUNDAY OF EASTER | 05/08/22 | Sermon on Acts 20:17-35 and John 10:22-30 | by Paula Murray | When I last wrote a sermon when Good Shepherd Sunday and Mother’s Day “collided,” for want of a better word, I made mention that the pastors of liturgical churches rarely preach a “Mother’s Day” sermon. We…
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Palm Sunday | April 10, 2022 | Lk 22-23 | Paula Murray | This day brings a kind of spirit-based whiplash with it, as we go from joy to sorrow. One moment we are waving palms and welcoming Jesus Christ into this space and our spirits. Moments later we are screaming for His death. We are spiritual Jekyls…
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The Sunday of the Transfiguration | Feb 27, ’22 | Luke 9:28-36 | by Paula Murray | 28 Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with Him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. 29 And as He was praying, the appearance of His face was altered,…
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9th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST, 2021 | A Sermon Based on Romans 6:1-11 and Luke 3:15-22 | by Paula Murray | When it comes to daily life, sometimes it seems like we’re going nowhere on Interstate 95 for 24 hours with thousands of other travelers hoping not to starve to death before the ice melts, or…
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THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT | December 12, 2021 | A Sermon Based on the Gospel of Luke 7:18-28 | by Paula Murray | 18 The disciples of John reported all these things to him. And John, 19 calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you the one who is…
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Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost | September 12, 2021 | A Sermon Based on James 3:1-12 and Mark 9:14-29 | by Paula Murray | 1Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does…
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9th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST | 27.07.2021 | A Sermon Based on Gospel: Mark 6:45-56 | by Paula Murray | 45Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd. 46And after He had taken leave of them, He went up on the…
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HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY, 2021 | A Sermon Based on John 3:1-17 | by Paula Murray | 1There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one…
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1st Sunday after Christmas, 12/27/2020 | Sermon on Luke 2:22-40 | by Paula Murray | 22When the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord 23as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who…
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CHRISTMAS EVE, 2020 | A Sermon Based on Luke 2:1-20 | by Paula Murray | 1In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4And…
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Paula Murray Most people are uncomfortable with the Gospel of the day, and have been over the generations, for the vicious tenor of the text. It’s just an awful story even if the point made does really get to our understanding of Jesus’ role in our salvation and sets us up for the incarnation…
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Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, 8/16/2020 | Sermon on Matthew 15:21-28 (ESV) | Pastor Paula Murray | We Share the Blessing of God’s Faithfulness with Everyone 21Jesus went away from Gennesaret and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on…
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Fourth Sunday After Easter, 5/03/2020 | Sermon on Psalm 23 and John 10:1-10 (ESV) | The Rev. Paula L. Murray | Psalm 23 1The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want. 2He makes me lie down in green pastures and leads me beside still waters. 3He revives my soul …
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Sermon on John 11:1-52 (ESV) | by The Rev. Paula L. Murray, STS | 1Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3So the sisters sent…
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Fifth Sunday After Epiphany | Sermon on Matthew 5:13-20, by Paula Murray | 13Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. 14You are the…
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