Sermons with Reverend Killjoy

All Saints Sunday, Revised Common Lectionary Year B

Revelation 21:1-6a

At the end of our Bible, God promises to make all things new. Death and mourning and crying and pain remain with us, even as God promises they will be no more. We trust in God's promise.

Lectionary 30, Revised Common Lectionary Year B - 22nd Sunday after Pentecost

Mark 10:46-52

When Jesus restores sight to Bartimaeus, we learn both about Jesus and about an unlikely paragon of faith and prayer. 

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 28, RCL Lectionary Year B

Mark 10:17-31

The rich man asks what he must do to inherit eternal life. Jesus tells him to sell everything before returning to follow Jesus. What is possible and what is impossible in following Jesus? 

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 25, RCL Lectionary Year B

Mark 9:30-37

Jesus tells his friends what will happen to him, and they ignore him and instead argue which of them is the greatest. 

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Lectionary 23, RCL Lectionary Year B

Isaiah 35, James 2:1-17

Do not fear! How do we develop a healthy relationship with fear while following Jesus? 

Lectionary 29B

Mark 10:35-45

After Jesus again tells of his impending arrest, suffering, death, and resurrection, James and John ask a stupid question of Jesus. Jesus talks about leadership as servanthood and about points us toward the truth of freedom in Christ.