Sermon: Commandments for Good Living

A Sermon – Rev. Whitney Bruno – Oct. 8, 2023 – Thanksgiving – Exodus 20:1-4,7-20; Commandments for Good Living. God speaks today from the mountain of fire and smoke and lightning - from a volcano! And the voice of God gives the ten words, ten laws, the ten commandments. Elsewhere we have Moses going up …

Blessed Space Among Us – Feb 7th 2021

Listen and watch this service here. Feb 7, 2021 ANNOUNCEMENTS- Please continue to remember the Baltimore Food Pantry either through the Church or individual. St Michael’s gave over $4,000 in 2020!!! We super, super exceeded the challenge Trace gave us. It was so needed – what a trying year we had in 2020. You have …

Burning the Candle at Both Ends (And The Middle)

"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."

When the Lord appears…

To best care for others, we also need to care for ourselves. Depending on how you read Genesis, chapter 18 could be a different version of chapter 17. In both YHWH approaches Abraham and Sarah and promise a future nation to Abraham through a child from Sarah. In both they are elderly people. In 17, …

The Sabbath

Deuteronomy 5:12-15 Mark 2:23-3:6 Very rarely things in the world wear name tags "HELLO MY NAME IS EVIL" and "HELLO MY NAME IS GOOD." Instead, we deal with shades of evil and good and have to decide which is the best. And sometimes, it's just picking between two goods, or two evils. Today, Jesus and …

Bickering Siblings

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Romans 4:13-25 Let me read to you something. It may sound a little familiar. It may sound a bit strange. (Surah 45-67): The Angels said, “O Mary, God gives you good news of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, well-esteemed in this world and the …

Why Rejoice?

Isaiah 25:1-9 Philippians 4:1-9 Why rejoice? How can we rejoice at a time like this? Is it right? Think of this year. What a year. A terrible year of tragedies, and world disasters. A year of record breaking fires, earthquakes, and hurricanes. A year of genocide, and threats of nuclear war, and civil war. A …

Humble Pie

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Luke 14:1, 7-14 In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is always heading towards food, eating, or just having left food. Ever noticed that? Luke centers his retelling of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection all around food! You think it’s kind of weird, but we do the same thing. Birthdays have – birthday …

I’m Too Busy!

Amos 8:1-12 Luke 10:38-42   Last week, Jesus was approached by a man who had studied scripture, memorized it, and knew all the commentaries. A super well educated man. And that man who knew all the writings asked Jesus - what must I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus told him he can't just read …