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Fr. Funston’s sermon for the First Sunday in Advent, December 2, 2012, is now available online: “Great God! I’d rather be a Pagan!” wrote Wordsworth more than 200 years ago. We modern Christians, he said, “have given our hearts away.…
Continue ReadingFr. George Baum preached at St. Paul’s Parish on Sunday, November 25, 2012, the Feast of Christ the King. His sermon began: Today’s Gospel reading seems to be all about power. There’s an obvious power struggle between Pilate and Jesus,…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for October 14, 2012, “The Patients of Job: Party Two – I Don’t Know Where to Find God!”, is now online: Job’s problem now, he believes, is that he doesn’t know where to find God! “If I…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for October 7, 2012, “The Patients of Job: Party One”, is now online: This book, as I made mention from this pulpit some weeks ago, is a work of fiction, but that does not stop it from…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for September 9, 2012, is now online: The difficulty of this passage is that we, as 21st Century Christians, want Jesus to be the simple, easy answer to all of our problems and to all of society’s…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, September 2, 2012, the 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 17B) is now online: Where the Pharisees sought to be separated from the unclean around them, Jesus preached the love of God which compels us to…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, August 26, 2012, is now available on line: In the act of Holy Communion we are joined with Christians everywhere and everywhen — with all those in every place who also take part in the…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for Sunday, August 19, 2012, the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, is now online on his blog: Lady Wisdom is not inviting simpletons or the foolishly naive into her parlor; she is inviting the open-minded, those who have…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 12) is now online: How many of you have ever attended a potluck supper or potluck luncheon in this parish? Let’s have show of hands. OK – hands down. Those…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10) is now online: While I would be the last to suggest that the Episcopal Church or any of its leaders are equivalent to Amos or John the Baptist, I…
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