Featured Sermon for the First Sunday in Lent (Year B)
To “all that is, seen and unseen”:
This sermon is linked on some of our sites, including ENAW’s Resources page: http://www.gracechurchamherst.org/sermons/1lent03.htm.
And it won the “Episcoveg Award of Excellence” by one vote, the only year I voted, with the Grand Prize being an ASWA T-shirt and mug. What a special honor! (Probably more of an honor, that I’d look for it again, three years later.)
I thought I’d send it to you, since it was based on next Sunday’s Lectionary readings.
http://www.io.com/~kellywp/YearB/Lent/BLent1.html
(Also, in case your OT reader reads too fast, or too quietly, Genesis 9:8-17 is the passage that J.R. Hyland pointed out in God’s Covenant with Animals: A Biblical Basis for the Humane Treatment of All Creatures http://tinyurl.com/qzgem, repeats God’s covenant with all living creatures 5 times, as if it was important enough to drill the implications into us. But it never hurts to hear it repeated another 5 times, whenever the opportunity presents itself.)
Happy Lent — theoretically, the most cruelty-free season of the Church Year! (Enjoy it while it lasts.)
[snip]
I was amazed by the overwhelming response and
left in no doubt that many Christians long for the Church
to demonstrate its concern about this issue.”
– The Rt Rev Richard Llewellin, retired Bishop at Lambeth
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