Sermons from Saint John’s

Sermon — July 2, 2023The Rev. Greg JohnstonLectionary Readings I’ve just finished watching—you might say “binge-watching”—the Netflix cooking competition show The Final Table, in which twenty-four chefs from around the world faced off in a series of culinary competitions. Murray … Continue reading →

Sermon — June 18, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings All across New England, it’s officially strawberry season. Towns across Connecticut are holding Strawberry Festivals. Last weekend, when we were down in Long Island, we had our first farm-stand … Continue reading →

Sermon — Pentecost, May 28, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston The last year or so has seen a huge explosion in the field of “large-language models,” artificial-intelligence technologies that can be trained to process text and produce things we never … Continue reading →

Sermon — May 21, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings Of all the Sundays in the entire church calendar, today seems to me be the one in which the apostles’ lives actually seem something like our own. For the … Continue reading →

Sermon — May 14, 2023 Lectionary Readings In a 2006 study, a psychologist at Leeds University asked 92 volunteers to sit down and write out the common English word “door” on a piece of paper 30 times in 60 seconds. … Continue reading →

Sermon — May 7, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood,a holy nation, God’s own people.” (1 Peter 2:9) If there’s one thing that human beings are really good at, it’s … Continue reading →

Sermon — April 23, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?” … Continue reading →

Sermon — April 16, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Reading “Although you have not seen God, you love God; and even though you do not see God now, you believe and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, for … Continue reading →

Sermon — Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings Alleluia! Christ is risen.The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! Now, on any other day I would start with a cute story or an illuminating anecdote that perfectly … Continue reading →

Sermon — April 2, 2023 — Palm Sunday The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings “Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last.At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two,from top to bottom.” … Continue reading →