HeyJaredAll Souls Parish Sermons
These are the weekly sermons of All Souls Parish in Berkeley, CA.
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Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (opens the original)
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the Rev. Phil Brochard The sermon uses the preacher's childhood failure to water a neighbor's prized zinnias to explore the difference between good intentions and faithful action. In Matthew's parable of the two sons, one son refuses his father's request to work in the vineyard but later changes his mind and goes, while the other promises to go but never does. The first son ultimately does the father's will. The parable is not about deciding who belongs and who does not; both sons remain sons. I
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (opens the original)
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the Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers Using the All Souls youth's encounters with day laborers at the U.S.–Mexico border, the sermon explores Jesus's parable of the laborers in the vineyard. The youth discovered that hearing people's stories and seeing their faces made it impossible to dismiss their humanity. Jesus similarly invites his disciples to see the humanity of those who are overlooked and to reconsider assumptions about who deserves what. In the parable, workers hired at the end of the day receive t
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (opens the original)
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the Rev. Phil Brochard The sermon argues that forgiveness is essential to both the nature of God and the life of Christian community. Beginning with Francis of Assisi's addition of pardon to the Canticle of the Creatures, it presents forgiveness as something as fundamental as the rest of creation. Jesus' parable of the unforgiving servant makes the point through an enormous contrast: a servant forgiven an impossibly large debt refuses to forgive a much smaller debt owed to him. God's extraordina
Feast of Creation in Christ (opens the original)
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the Rev. Emily Boring The sermon celebrates the Feast of Creation in Christ by exploring the Christian belief that everything is created, sustained, and ultimately gathered together in Christ. Beginning with the preacher's awe-filled memory of watching a humpback whale repeatedly slap its tail against the ocean at sunset, the sermon contrasts scientific explanation with the deeper experience of wonder and relationship. Genesis and John's Gospel reveal creation not as something God made and left
Memorial Service of Howard Perdue (opens the original)
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the Rev. Phil Brochard
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