Sermons from St. George's

Clint Wilson: Sermon by St. George's Nashville

As we see in the Gospel, and in Isaiah, and throughout God’s story, God uses people where they are, and with the talents they have.... All of us are called to serve as ministers and members of the body of Christ, and to share Jesus in our boats, in our context, in our neighborhoods, in our studies, in our professions. So where has God strategically placed you? What abilities and opportunities and relationships are around you that God can use? Sermon from the 8:45am service on 2/10/19.

As these stories of Simon Peter and Isaiah show us, encountering this abundant life—this utter glory and magnificence—can be a terrifying thing, as the holiness of God bears a stark contrast to the dividedness of our hearts. But as these stories go on to show us, if we can bear to meet the gaze of this One who reveals his glory to us, if we can let the burning coal touch our lips, it will not only be our undoing, but it will be our remaking, our transformation, our healing. Sermon from The Table on 2/10/19.

Does the Church have the courage to create a culture of life — where the immigrant, the poor, the disabled, the elderly, and the pregnant mother who finds herself between a rock and a hard place — are mystified by the glorious beauty of life in Jesus Christ, as shown forth in the love of the local Church? Sermon from the 11:15am service on 2/3/19.

All Jesus is telling us today from the gospel passage is to believe in him and to believe in the scriptures. He wants us to trust him and to also trust the scriptures for our salvation and also for our healing, just the same way he told his own folks of men and women in Nazareth who were doubtful and skeptical of his mission to save and his power to heal. Some of us are witnesses of how Jesus saved us and changed our lives, and of how he healed us. We are witnesses of how he saved us from things that weighed us down, and of how he brought us out of places we never thought we could ever come out from. All Jesus is asking you to do is to have faith in him, to have faith in the scriptures. Sermon from The Table on 2/3/19.

We don't read the Bible primarily to gain knowledge, or wisdom, or life-coaching, or trivia answers for life's questions. We read the Bible to know Christ, for the sacred words point us to the Word, who is our very life. Episcopalians must pursue being people 'of the Book,' who are nourished by sacred Scriptural words and who live under God's authority. Sermon from The Table service on 1/27/19.

The dying of our wish-dream allows us to move forward and live in real community. As we hold in tension the vision of community God has given us with the reality that is before us, we learn to walk together and take responsibility for making it work. We learn to hold each other with a sort of delicacy, knowing full well that in our love we are holding, not the best and strongest pieces of each other, but the most vulnerable and broken pieces of each other. We come together as people united, not by our goodness and strength, but rather united in our weakness and need. "We are beggars, it is true. Alleluia, alleluia," Martin Luther proclaims. Sermon from the 8:45 service on 1/27/19.

Mary says to the servants, “do whatever my son asks of you.” Do you? What is Jesus asking of you this day? Where has the wine run out? What if the Son’s request of you this day is to open up that part of your life to him with this simple but powerful prayer: “Lord, fill this empty place. Pour yourself into me like water poured into those stone jars. And make in me new wine.”

Sermon from the 8:45am service on 1/20/19.

God knows we cannot survive running on empty. And so he is right now filling you. Because he knows you can’t fill yourself. He is filling your jars full.

Sermon from The Table on 1/20/19.

It’s not what you do that defines who you are. It’s who you are that defines what you do.

Sermon from the 8:45am service on 1/13/19.