Sermons from Saint Christopher's By-the-Sea, Portland Texas

In his First Letter to Saint Timothy, Saint Paul describes a few prayers that we should be saying every day.  In today's Sermon, Father Blackburn explores these prayers and calls us to become living prayers.

What does it mean to be lost?  It might mean that you are lost in a forest, that you are lost in your daily life, or even lost to the Church.  Jesus comes to find us, because he is a shepherd who knows how to find lost sheep and people

Jesus calls us to "carry our cross" in Luke 14:25-33.  Father Blackburn explains what that means in our modern world, in our lives, and in our discipleship as Christians.

Today's Sermon is based on Jeremiah 2:4-13.  Father Blackburn is the preacher.

One of the most celebrated Chapters of the New Testament is found in the Letter to the Hebrews.  Chapter 11 and the beginning of 12 is a litany of faith, culminating in the climatic "Therefore!"  In this sermon, Father Blackburn discusses the roles of saints in our lives and how they point us to Jesus, not for their glory, but for his.

We all have stuff...and maybe admittedly too much stuff.  Jesus warns us about the dangerous of having too much stuff and what the remedy is for it.  The Passage for today is from the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 12, beginning in verse 32.

In his letter to the Colossians, Saint Paul implores us to "set our minds on things that are above".  But the second portion of the lesson tells us to be dead to sin.  In this sermon, Father Blackburn gives us the reasons why we must put sin to death in our lives, and a few basic tools to use to examine our living.

July 25th (in some places it is July 24th) is the Feast Day of our Patron Saint, Saint Christopher.  But what is a patron Saint, and why are they important.  Father John explains and explores these questions, and tells part of Saint Christopher's legend of carrying the Christ Child across a river.

Jesus gives us the Lord's Prayer as a model for all of our other prayers.  But, do we really think about what we are say?  In this Sermon, Father Blackburn gives rather slowly through each line of the Lord's Prayer and helps us think about what we are saying to God.