Sermons from Saint John’s

Sermons from Saint John’s

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  • “I Am the Resurrection”
    Sermon — March 26, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings There’s a phrase in our liturgy that has a special place in my heart, and appropriately enough, it’s the one I say the most often during our service on … Continue reading →
    12 min
  • Your Lying Eyes
    Sermon — March 19, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Page Last week, a thirty-five-year-old man was released from the prison where he had spent the last eighteen years after being convicted for a murder he did not commit. In … Continue reading →
    11 min
  • Living Water
    Sermon — March 12, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings This year I’m serving as a chaplain to the Episcopal Service Corps program in Boston. Every two weeks, I drive down to St Mark’s in Dorchester and spend the … Continue reading →
    11 min
  • The Rescue Diver
    Sermon — Sunday, March 5, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in himmay have eternal life.” (John 3:14-15) There … Continue reading →
    12 min
  • “Two Half-Truths and a Lie”
    Sermon — February 26, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings If you want a master class in the self-justifying half-truth, you don’t need to look any further than the Congressional testimony of one William Campbell, then President & CEO … Continue reading →
    12 min
  • Two Kinds of Mountain-Top
    Sermon — February 19, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings The writer Dave Zahl tells the story of a visit he paid to a friend of his, a priest who’d burned out terribly during his first call at a … Continue reading →
    10 min
  • “A Fence around the Law”
    Sermon — February 12, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings There’s a traffic phenomenon I’ve discovered in my years driving around the Northeast. I call it “the New-England Green.” Now, a driver’s ed instructor will tell you that there … Continue reading →
    13 min
  • “You are the Light of the World”
    Sermon — February 5, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings Last week, Alice Krapf sent me a copy of the Rev. Philo Sprague’s sermon on the 50th anniversary of St. John’s: the Sunday fifty years to the day after … Continue reading →
    10 min
  • “There’s Nothing More Holy than a Good Waste of Time”
    Sermon — January 29, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings “For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom,and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.”(1 Cor. 1:18-31) There’s nothing in the world that’s more holy than a good waste … Continue reading →
    10 min
  • “Like Fish in the Net”
    Sermon — January 22, 2023 The Rev. Greg Johnston Lectionary Readings When I was a kid we used to spend every Fourth of July down in New Jersey, at my grandparents’ house, in the town where my parents lived as … Continue reading →
    11 min

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Sunday sermons from St. John’s Episcopal Church, a growing, vibrant, inclusive community in Charlestown, Massachusetts.