Category: Sermons

Sermon preached by Fr. Tom Haynes at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Plymouth September 22, 2013 Eighteenth Sunday of Pentecost – Proper 20 Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 Psalm 14 1 Timothy 1:1217 Luke 15:110 “May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be an acceptable offering in your sight, Oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.”… Continue reading Forgive us our trespasses …

Sermon preached by Fr. Tom Haynes at St. Thomas Episcopal Plymouth August 18, 2013 Twelfth Sunday of Pentecost – Proper 15 Isaiah 5:17 Psalm 80:12, 8-18 Hebrews 11:2912:2 Luke 12:49-56 “May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be an acceptable offering in your sight, Oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.” I think… Continue reading Peace be with you?

Sermon Preached by Tom Haynes St. Thomas Episcopal Church August 11, 2013 Proper 14C Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 Psalm 50:1-8, 23-24 Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Luke 12:32-40 “May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be an acceptable offering in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.” So what are you… Continue reading So What Are You Afraid of?

9 June 2013                                           Luke 11: 11-17   If you were to walk into this church today for the first time and heard the lessons that we just read, you might think that raising the dead was a fairly common occurrence amongst us—or at least in our foundational documents.  As it happens, there are only a… Continue reading The Widow of Nain

Proper 4                                                   Luke 7: 1-11 2 June 2013 I read an interesting article in the Times  this last week which caught my attention because of the title: “Belief is the least part of faith.”  [ T. M. Luhrman, NYTimes, May 30]  It was written by a woman who teaches anthropology at Stanford and who maintains,… Continue reading Such Faith