COLLECTED WORKS
Volume II
Thomas Lawrence Mowbray
SERMONS FOR THE
LITURGICAL YEAR BASED ON THE REVISED COMMON LECTIONARY
YEAR A
YEAR B
YEAR C
LECTIONARY WORSHIP
SERIES: SERMONS FOR YEAR A OF THE REVISED COMMON LECTIONARY
CONTENTS
Advent 1
Date: 29 November
1998
Title: “The New
Day Dawning”
Advent 2
Date: 06 December
1998
Title: “A Sacred
Time of Hope”
Advent 3
Date: 13 December
1998
Title: “Confident
Anticipation”
Text: Isaiah
35:1-10
Advent 4
Date: 20 December
1998
Title: “Joe’s
Doubts”
Text: Matthew
1:18-25
Christmas 1
Date: 24 December
1998
Title: “Tidings
of Comfort and Joy”
Epiphany
Date: 03 January 1999
Title: “The Star of Bethlehem”
Text: Matthew 2:1-12
Epiphany 1
The Baptism of
Jesus
Date: 10 January
1999
Title: “The
Person and the Work of Jesus”
Text: Matthew
3:13-17
Epiphany 2
Date: 17 January
1999
Title: “The Lamb
of God”
Text: John
1:29-42
Epiphany 4
Date: 31 January 1999
Title: “The Spontaneous Qualities of a Grateful Life”
Text: Matthew 5:1-12
Epiphany 5
Date: 07 February 1999
Title: “Cutting Back on Salt and Conserving Energy”
Text: Matthew 5:13-20
Epiphany 6
Date: 14 February 1999
Title: “The Practical
Shape of Behavior and Piety” or “Salvation Is Free Only After the Bills Are
Paid”
Text: Matthew 5:21-37
Ash Wednesday
Date: 17 February 1999
Homily
Text: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Lent 1
Date: 22 February 1999
Title: “Saying Good-Bye to Old Adam”
Text: Romans 5:12-19
Lent 2
Date: 28 February 1999
Title: “Faith as Gift”
Text: John 3:1-17
Lent 3
Date: 07 March 1999
Title: “An Unwinding Conversation”
Text: John 4:5-42
Lent 4
(One Great Hour of Sharing Special Mission Offering for the United Church of Christ)
Date: 14 March 1999
Title: “Fifty Great Hours”
Text: Mark 16:15
Lent 5
Date: 21 March 1999
Title: “The Power of the Divine Word”
Text: Ezekiel 37:1-14
Palm / Passion
Sunday
Date: 28 March
1999
Title: “What God
Would Do”
Easter Sunday
Date: 04 April 1999
Title: “The Day of Proclamation”
Easter 2
Thomas Sunday
Date: 11 April 1999
Title: “Tireless, Indispensable Doubt”
Text: John 20:19-31
Easter 3
(Pulpit Exchange Sunday)
Date: 18 April 1999
Title: “United and Uniting”
Easter 4
Date: 25 April
1999
Title: “Living as
an Offering”
Text: I Peter
2:19-25
Easter 5
Date: 02 May 1999
Title: “The Witness of Stephen”
Text: Acts 7:54-60
Easter 6
Festival of the Christian Home
Date: 09 May 1999
Title: “The Christian Home”
Easter 7
Date: 16 May 1999
Title: “Power to Serve”
Text: Acts 1:6-14
Trinity Sunday
Date: 30 May 1999
Title: “A Trinity of Love”
Proper 5
Date: 06 June
1999
Title: “Being a
Blessing”
Text: Genesis
12:1-9
Proper 6
Date: 13 June
1999
Title: “Laugh
With Me”
Text: Genesis
18:1-15
Proper 7
Father’s Day
Date: 17 June 1999
Title: “The Fatherhood of God”
Text: Matthew 10:24-39
Proper 8
Date: 27 June 1999
Title: “A Remarkable Circularity”
Text: Matthew 10:40-42
Proper 13
Date: 01 August 1999
Title: “Nearer to God”
Text: Genesis 32:22-31 and 28:10-17
Proper 14
Date: 08 August 1999
Title: “Rescue at Sea”
Text: Matthew 14:22-33
Proper 15
Date: 15 August 1999
Title: “The Hidden-ness of God”
Text: Genesis 45:4-20
Proper 16
Date: 22 August 1999
Title: “An Unlikely Cast of Characters”
Text: Exodus 1:8-2:10
Proper 17
Date: 29 August 1999
Title: “Put Off Thy Shoes”
Text: Exodus: 3:1-15
Proper 19
Date: 12 September 1999
Title: “A Very Clear Lesson”
Text: Matthew 18:21-35
Proper 20
Date: 19
September 1999
Title: “The
Uncertainty of Grace”
Text: Matthew
20:1-16
Proper 21
Date: 26 September 1999
Title: “Transferred Dependency”
Text: Exodus 17:1-7
Proper 22
World Communion Sunday
Date: 03 October 1999
Title: “Today’s Worldwide Event”
Proper 23
Date: 10 October 1999
Title: “The Prepared Guest”
Text: Matthew 22:1-14
Proper 24
Date: 17 October 1999
Title: “When You Find Yourself Between a Rock and a Hard Place”
Text: Exodus 33:12-23
Proper 25
Date: 24 October 1999
Title: “The Will of God In a Nutshell”
Text: Matthew 22:34-46
Proper 26
Date: 31 October
1993
Text: Matthew
23:1-12
Title: “Halloween and the Christian"
Proper 27
All Saints Sunday
Date: 07 November
1999
Title: “The Special Children of God”
Text: I. John 3:1-3
Proper 28
Date: 14 November 1999
Title: “God’s Entrepreneurs”
Text: Matthew 25:14-30
Proper 29
Date: 21 November 1999
Title: “Entering Gates With Thanksgiving”
Text: Psalm 100:4
LECTIONARY WORSHIP SERIES: SERMONS FOR YEAR B OF THE REVISED COMMON LECTIONARY
CONTENTS
Advent 1
Date: 28 November 1999
Meditation: “The Three Words Of Advent”
Advent 2
Date: 05 December 1999
Homily/Meditation
Advent 3
Date: 12 December1999
Theological Reflections
on an incomplete sermon
Text: John 1:6-8,19-28.
Advent 4
Date: 19 December 1999
Title: “The Surprising Nature of God’s Grace.”
Text: Luke 1:26-38
Christmas 1
Date: 26December 1999
Meditation
Text: Luke 2:22-40
Christmas 2
Date: 27 December 1998
Title: “Responding to a Time-Shattering Event”
Epiphany 1
Date: 09 January 2000
Sermon for the 1st Sunday after Epiphany
Text: Genesis 1:1-5
Epiphany 2
Date: 19 January 1997
Title: “The Call to the
Real”
Epiphany 2
Date: 16 January
2000
Text: I Samuel
3:1-10
Epiphany 4
Date: 02 February 1997
Title: “Concerned
Living”
Epiphany 6
Date: 13 February
2000
Homily: “The Leper
Who Dared Jesus to Heal Him”
Text: Mark 40-45
Epiphany 7
Date: 20 February 2000
Title: “Let’s Do It Now”
Text: Mark 2:1-12
Epiphany 8
Date: 27 February 2000
Text: II. Corinthians 1-6
Epiphany 9
Date: 05 March 2000
Meditation
Last Sunday After Epiphany
Transfiguration Sunday
Date: 09 February 1997
Title: “A Glimpse of Holiness”
Lent 1
Date: 16 February 1997
Title: “Lento”
Hymn: “Take Time To Be
Holy”
Related Texts: Psalm
25:1-10, Mark 1:9-15
Lent 2
Date:19 March 2000
Title: "Ashes
to Ashes…."
Lent 3
Date: 02 March 1997
Title: “For Fast Relief,
Take Two Tablets”
Text: Exodus 20:1-17
Lent 3
Date: 26 March 2000
Title: “The Day Jesus Cleaned House”
Text: John 2:15-22
Lent 5
Date: 16 March 1997
Title: “Salvation and
Health”
Text: Psalm 51
Palm Sunday
Date: 23 March 1997
Homily
Palm Sunday
Date: 16 April 2000
Homily
Easter Sunday
Date: 23 April 2000
Meditation
Easter 2 - Thomas Sunday
Date: 30 April 2000
Title: “Are You Sure?”
Text: John 20:19-31
Easter 3
Date: 13 April 1997
Title: “What Brings Faith?”
Text: Luke 24:36b-48
Easter 4
Texts: Acts 4:(23-31) 32-37 or Ezekiel 34:1-10; Psalm 23 or 100; 1 John 3:1-8 or Acts 4:(23-31) 32-37; John 10:11-16
Meditation
Easter 5
Date: 21 May 2000
Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
Text: Acts 8:26-40
Easter 7
Homily
Text: John 17: 11-19
A Sermon for the
Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend
Date: 28 May 2000
Text: John 15:9-17
Trinity Sunday
Date: 18 June 2000
Proper 5
Date: 08 June 1997
Title: “Fresh Perceptions”
Text: Mark 3:20-35
Proper 6
Date: 15 June 1997
Title: “What’s Happening”
Text: Mark 4:26-34
Proper 7
Date: 22 June 1997
Title: “Extraordinary Power”
Text: Mark 4:35-41
Proper 7
Date: 25 June 2000
Title: “The Day Life Becomes a Storm”
Text: Mark 4:35-41
Proper 8
Date: 02 June 2000
Title: “Healing, Wholeness and Salvation”
Text: Mark 5:21-45
Proper 10
Date: 13 July 1997
Title: “Intimate Comprehension”
Text: Ephesians 1:3-14
Proper 11
Date: 20 July 1997
Title: “First Principles”
Text: II. Samuel 7:1-14
Proper 11
Date: 23 July 2000
Meditation: “West”
Text: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
Proper 12
Date: 27 July 1997
Title: “The Authority of Jesus”
Text: John 6:16-21 (1-21)
Proper 12
Date: 03 August 1997
Title: “The Basis of Christian Oneness”
Text: Ephesians 4:1-16
Proper 12
Date: 06 August 2000
Title: “A Time to Remember”
Proper 14
Date: 10 August 1997
Text: Ephesians 4:25-5:2
Proper 14
Date: 13 August 2000
Meditation: “Bread Is Bread!”
Text: John 6:35, 41-51
Proper 15
Date: 20 August 2000
Text: Ephesians 5:15-20
Proper 16
Date: 24 August 1997
Title: “Christian Armor”
Text: Ephesians 6:10-20
Proper 16
Date: 27 August 2000
Title: “Armor for Life’s Battles”
Text: Ephesians 6:10-20
Proper 17
Date: 30 August 1997
Text: Song of Solomon 2:8-13
Title: "The Language of Intimate Friendship"
Proper 18
Date: 07 September 1997
Title: “Evaluating Persons”
Text: James 2
Proper 18
Title: “The Tongue’s Capacities”
Date: 14 September 97
Text: James 3
Proper 20
Title: “Gracious Acceptance”
Date: 21 September 1997
Text: Proverbs 31:10-31
Proper 21
Title: “Caring Connections”
Text: James 5:13-20
Date: 28 September 1997
Proper 24
Date: 19 October 1997
Title: “When There Is Silence Between Heaven and Earth”
Text: Job 38:1-11
Proper 25
Title: “The Last Miracle”
Text: Mark 10:46-52
All Saints Sunday
Date: 02 November 1997
Title: “The Company of Heaven” (incomplete)
Texts: Revelations 7:2-4, 9-17, Psalm 149, I. John 3:1-3, Matthew 5:1-12
Proper 27
Date: 09 November 1997
Title: “ Mighty Fine Financial Transactions”
Text: Mark 12:38-44
Proper 28
Date: 16 November 1997
Title: “To Be Steadily Ready”
Text: Mark 13:1-8
Proper 29
Date: 23 November 1997
Title: “The Servant King”
Text: John 18:33-37
Pentecost 24, Christ the King
Date: 26 November 2000
Communion Meditation: “Do We Need A King?”
Text: John 18:33-27
LECTIONARY WORSHIP
SERIES: SERMONS FOR YEAR C OF THE REVISED COMMON LECTIONARY
CONTENTS
Advent 1
Date: 03 December 2000
Title: “Turning Up Our Collars”
Text: Luke 21:25-36
Advent 2
Date: 10 December 2000
Title: “Are You Ready?”
Text: Luke 3:1-6
Advent 3
Rose Sunday
Date: 14 December 1997
Title: “The Colors of Christmas”
Christmas 1
Date: 31 December 2000
Title: “Spreading Wings”
Text: Luke 2:41-52
Epiphany 1
Date: 12
January 1992
Title:
“Living On Tiptoe”
Texts:
Acts 8:14-17, Luke 3:15-17, 21-22.
Epiphany 2
Date: 19
January 1991
Place: The
Little Brown Church in the Vale
Title:
“When Ordinary Things Fail”
Texts:
Isaiah 62:1-5, I. Corinthians 12:1-11, John 2:1-11
Epiphany 3
Date: 26
January 1992
Title:
"Resources To Last a Lifetime"
Text: Luke
4:14-21
Epiphany 4
Date: 02
February1992
Title:
“Not Yesterday, Not Someday, Today!”
Texts:
Jeremiah 1:4-10, I. Corinthians 13:1-13, Luke 4:21-30
Epiphany 5
Date: 08 February 1998
Title: “The Pain of Answered Prayer”
Texts: Isaiah 6:1-8, Psalm 138, I. Corinthians 15:1-11, Luke 5:1-11
Epiphany
6
Date: 16
February 1992
Title:
“Congratulations”
Text: Luke
6:17-26
Epiphany 7
Date: 23
February 1992
Title:
“Humanity’s Constant Flux”
Texts:
Genesis 45:3-11, 15. I. Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50. Luke 6:27-38
The Last
Sunday After Epiphany
Date: 01
March 1992
Title:
"New Forms for the Common Life"
Texts:
Exodus 34:29-35, II. Corinthians 3:12-4:2, Luke 9:28-36
Ash Wednesday
Date: 25 February 1998
Meditation
Text: Matthew 6:5-14
Lent 1
Date: 01 March 1998
Title: “The War Raging In Every Life”
Text: Luke 4:1-13
Lent 2
Date: 15
March 1992
Title:
“First, We Have Coffee”
Text: Luke
13:31-35
Lent 3
Date: 22
March 1992
Title:
“The Power of God To See Us Through"
Texts: I.
Corinthians 10:1-13, Luke 13:1-9
Lent 4
Date: 29
March 1992
Title:
"Patient Mercy"
Texts:
Joshua 5:9-12, II. Corinthians 5:16-21, Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Lent 5
Date: 05
April 1992
Meditation:
"Frightening Extravagance"
Texts:
Isaiah 43:16-21, Psalm 126, Philippians 3:4b-14, John 12:1-8
Palm Sunday
Date: Palm Sunday 1998
Title: “Honor Or Imitate”
Texts: Philippians 2:5-11, Luke 19:28-40
Easter
Sunday 1992
Title:
“The Assurance of Easter”
Texts:
Acts 10:34-43, I. Corinthians 15:19-26, Psalm 118:14-24, John 20:1-18
Easter 3
Date: 26 April 1998
Meditation: “What Are You Dragging?”
Text: John 21:1-19
Easter 4
Date: 03 May 1998
Title: “Strange Reversals”
Text: John 10:22-30
Easter 5
Date: 10 May 1998
Title: “Measuring Up”
Text: John 13:31-35
Easter 6
Date: 17 May 1998
Title: “A Good Promise”
Text: John 14:23-29
Easter 7
Ascension Sunday
Date: 24 May 1998
Title: “The Vantage Point”
Text: Luke 24:44-53
Trinity Sunday
Date: 07 June 1998
Title: “Communicating Gently”
Text: John 16:12-15
Proper 11
Date: 19 July 1998
Title: “The Good and
the Necessarily Better”
Text: Luke 10:38-42
Proper 13
Date: 02 August 1998
Title: “Living the Kingdom Come”
Text: Luke 12:13-21
Proper 14
Date: 09 August 1998
Title: “You’re Ready. So, Go Ahead.”
Text: Luke 12:32-40
Proper 15
Date: 19 August 1998
Title: “Reading the Weather”
Text: Luke 12:54-56
Proper 16
Date: 23 August 1998
Title: “Christian Hospitality”
Text: Luke 13:10-17
Proper 17
Date: 30 August 1998
Title: “Keeping An Eye On Jesus”
Text: Luke 14:1a, 7-14
Proper 18
Date: 06 September 1998
Title: “Getting Reality into Our Soft Heads and Hard Hearts”
Text: 14:25-33
Proper 19
Date: 13 September 1998
Title: “The Seeking God”
Text: Luke 15:1-10
Proper 20
Date: 20 September 1998
Title: “The Rascal Parable”
Text: Luke 16:1-13
Proper 21
Date: 27 September 1998
Title: “An Affair of the Heart”
Text: Luke 16:19-31
Proper 22
World Communion Sunday
Date: 04 October 1998
Title: “An Antepast of Heaven”
Texts: Proper 22
Proper 23
Access Sunday
Date: 11 October 1998
Title: “What’s Your Handicap?”
Text: (Luke 17:11-19)
Proper 24
Date: 18 October 1998
Title: “Ask, Believing”
Text: Luke 18:1-8
Proper 25
Date: 25 October 1998
Title: “Politics and the Reformed Church”
Topic: Reformation Sunday
Proper 26
All Saints
Date: 01 November 1998
Title: “All Saints”
Proper 27
Date: 08 November 1998
Title: “Using Tradition”
Proper 28
Date: 15 November 1998
Title: “This Is It!”
Text: Luke 21:5-19, II Thessalonians 3:6-13