St. Columba's Episcopal Church Sermons

CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO SERMON HANDOUT   Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany Old Testament:  Isaiah 58:1-9a, (9b-12) 1 Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.  2 Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinanc...

Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany Old Testament:  Micah 6:1-8 1 Hear what the Lord says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.  2 Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.  3 "O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I...

Third Sunday after the Epiphany Old Testament:  Isaiah 9:1-4 1 But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.  2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who...

Second Sunday after the Epiphany Old Testament:  Isaiah 49:1-7 1 Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention, you peoples from far away! The Lord called me before I was born, while I was in my mother's womb he named me.  2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me away.  3 And he said to me, "You are my servant, Isr...

The Baptism of our Lord The Collect: Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen. First Lesso...

The Epiphany Old Testament:  Isaiah 60:1-6 1 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.  2 For darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will appear over you.  3 Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.  4 Lift up your eyes and look around; they all gat...

CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO SERMON HANDOUT   First Sunday after Christmas Old Testament:  Isaiah 61:10-62:3 10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my whole being shall exult in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.  11 For as the earth br...

Christmas Day The Collect: O God, you make us glad by the yearly festival of the birth of your only Son Jesus Christ: Grant that we, who joyfully receive him as our Redeemer, may with sure confidence behold him when he comes to be our Judge; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Old Testament:  Isaiah 52:7-10 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the...

Fourth Sunday of Advent The Collect: Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for himself; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Old Testament:  Isaiah 7:10-16 10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, saying,  11 Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let...

Third Sunday of Advent The Collect: Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen. Old Testament:  Isaiah 35:1-10 1 The wilderness and the dry land shall b...

Second Sunday of Advent The Collect: Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Old Testament:  Isaiah 11:1-10 1 A shoot...

  First Sunday of Advent The Collect: Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who live...

Feast of Christ the King Old Testament Jeremiah 23:1-6 W oe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the Lord. Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord....

CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO SERMON HANDOUT Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost Old Testament Malachi 4:1-2a S ee, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with heali...

Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost The Collect O  God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves as he is pure; that, when he comes again with power and great glory, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he lives and re...

All Saints' Day Old Testament Daniel 7:1-3,15-18 I n the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in bed. Then he wrote down the dream: I, Daniel, saw in my vision by night the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea, and four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. As for me, Daniel, my spirit was troubled withi...

NOTE TO LISTENER: This liturgy begins a series of sermons on the spirituality, meaning, and theology of the liturgy.  To illustrate the importance of ceremony Fr. Vincent processed in wearing a white, black, and blue plaid shirt. No reason was given for this to the congregation until the sermon. Twenthieh Sunday after Pentecost Old Testament: Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22 7 Although our iniquities testi...

Ninteenth Sunday after Pentecost Old Testament:  Genesis 32:22-31 22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.  23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24 Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail agains...

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Old Testament:  Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4 1 The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw.  2 O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save?  3 Why do you make me see wrong-doing and look at trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.  4 So the law becomes slack and justice...

Creationtide V Epistle: Colossians 3:1-17 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. Put to...

The Fourth Sunday in Creationtide     Amos 6:1a, 4-7     A Reading from John' Muir's Journal: My First Summer in the Sierras, September 7, 1869, near Tuolumne Meadows     Luke 16:19-31    Today's sermon is offered by Penny Washbourn, CED member, honoring Saint John Muir (1838-1914).  

The Third Sunday in Creationtide     Amos 8:4-7 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Luke 16:1-13   Today's sermon is offered by Steve Lyman, CED member, honoring St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491 - 1556).

The Second Sunday in Creationtide     Exodus 32:7-14  1 Timothy 1:12-17  Luke 15:1-10    Today's sermon is offered by Sylvia Timbers, CED member, honoring the Saint within each of us. 

The First Sunday in Creationtide     Deuteronomy 30:15-20  Philemon 1-21  Luke 14:25-33    Today's sermon is offered by Ann Hall, CED member, honoring Saint Etty Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) 

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Old Testament: Proverbs 25:6-7 6 Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great; 7 for it is better to be told, "Come up here," than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. What your eyes have seen Psalm:  Psalm 112 1  Hallelujah!   Happy are they who fear the Lord *         and have great delight in his commandments! 2  The...