Sermons by Paula Jefferson
Centering our relationship with God
This is the sermon the Rev. Paula Jefferson preached on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of St. Mary’s Hillsboro, the oldest continuing congregation in our diocese. —— In the sixth month Gabriel is a very busy angel. As God’s messenger in Luke’s Gospel, this guy is gaining quite a reputation. Everywhere he appears, he disrupts the status quo of lives. Two women who should not be pregnant … will be pregnant. The husband and…
“I am not throwing away my shot”
This is the sermon the Rev. Paula Jefferson preached at the featured live streamed worship on the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, February 6, 2022, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Keller. ——– I am not throwing away my shot. Last Wednesday evening, I had the chance to see Hamilton at Bass Hall in Fort Worth. I also had the chance, compliments of Mother Nature, to have a dicey sleigh ride home. Outside, it was cold, wet, and icy. But inside Bass Hall,…
The mystery of the other path
This is the sermon the Rev. Paula Jefferson preached on the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 19, 2021, for the live streamed worship service at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Keller. ——– The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as…
‘Open wide your hearts”
This is the sermon the Rev. Paula Jefferson preached on the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, June 20, 2021, for the online worship service of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Keller. —— Job 38:1-11 Psalm 107:1-3, 23-32 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 Mark 4:35-41 Today’s readings present us with a similar theme: human suffering and God’s engagement in our imperfect world. Fr Ron refers to this sort of reading as, “The Happy Christian’s Guide to Suffering”. Job, Mark’s Gospel, and Paul … each of these readings…