A few words from Father Kemper
Weekly homilies delivered at St. James' Episcopal Church in Cedartown, Georgia
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Weekly homilies delivered at St. James' Episcopal Church in Cedartown, Georgia
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Romans 12:9-21 Gotta love what the Apostle Paul sets forth as the “Marks of a True Christian:” Love out loud! …God, neighbor and even strangers. Hold fast to that which is good, render to no one evil for evil. Support the weak, help the afflicted, honor everyone… these admonitions should sound familiar to you. Spread […]
Romans 12:1-8 and Matthew 16:13-20 Grace. It’s a word we Christians use regularly. It’s sometimes conflated with another commonly used word: “blessing,” but the terms are not quite interchangeable. People of many cultures and faith traditions understand “blessing” as a special favor and protection bestowed upon temporal creatures (like ourselves) by a higher power, often […]
Matthew 15:21-28 I’ve seen a number of social media posts this week, from a variety of preachers, fretting over how they might interpret Matthew’s gospel story about Jesus’ encounter with the Canaanite woman for their congregations. And, sure enough, it’s a tough one. Not me, however. I ascribe to the sentiments of Snoopy the Dog […]
Matthew 14:22-33 Aieeeeeeee! “Lord, save me!” Matthew doesn’t say that Peter screamed as he began to sink, and felt the water closing over his head, but it seems reasonable that he would have. I know I would have. Even before Peter’s brush with death, the disciples had been having a pretty rough go of it. Struggling against the wind on a roiling […]
Luke 9:28-36 So… a priest and a rabbi walked into a bar… oops, I mean they were sitting in a coffee shop one day having a theological conversation. We’ll call them Bob and Moishe. They were discussing the nature of God and salvation, and all sorts of pithy stuff. Things were beginning to get a […]
Matthew 20:20-28 “We are able.” What a crazy thing to say! I can’t help but imagine the look Jesus must have given James and John after they had blurted those words. A look of amusement, perhaps… tinged with pity. What were they thinking? Of course, we today have the benefit of hindsight. We know how the story of […]
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 Separating the weeds from the wheat. Yeah, baby! That’s what God’s Messiah is gonna do on the last day. Earlier in Matthew’s gospel, John the Baptizer foreshadowed today’s parable when he said: “I baptize you with water for repentance, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I […]
Genesis 25:19-34 Thus, Esau despised his birthright. I remember a few occasions… during my intemperate youth… when my mother (God rest her soul) would admonish me, gently, “Don’t sell your birthright for a mess of pottage.” Now, even at my worst, I wasn’t engaged in any sort of activity that was likely to have altered the trajectory of world history… […]
Romans 7:15-25 and Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 There’s a lot for us to think about in today’s readings from Scripture. I really feel for the Apostle Paul… He wrote, “I do not understand my own actions… for I do what I do not want, I do the very thing I hate.” My sinful, physical self is at war with my spiritual self… my soul! Paul seems to […]
Matthew 10:24-39 and Romans 6:1-11 So, I’m not going to preach at y’all today. I’m going to let you grapple with today’s passage from Matthew on your own time. There’s lot’s there to think about: Jesus said, “If my detractors hate me… how much more will they hate you… and others who follow me? But don’t worry about them… […]
