Sermons
Election Day Sermon
Luke 14:25-33
Eight years ago almost to the day, when I was a new interim theology professor at SSW, I stood in this pulpit and preached my very first sermon in Christ Chapel. It was 2 days after we sent George W Bush back to the White House for 4 more years, and 3 or 4 days after the Lambeth Commission released the Windsor Report, giving a theological and ecclesiastical response to the controversies in the Episcopal Church surrounding human sexuality.
On the feast of Alexander Crummell
Seminary of the Southwest
September 12, 2012
In our lives Lord, be glorified
In your Church Lord, be glorified
Dr. Stanley Hauerwas’ sermon for 2012 Commencement
Because It Is True
A Commencement Sermon
The Seminary of the Southwest
May 8, 2012
Martin Luther King Sunday
The Very. Rev. Douglas Travis
Martin Luther King Sunday, January 15, 2012
St. James Episcopal Church, Austin
Genesis 37:17-20
Ephesians 6:10-20
Luke 6:27-36
“This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
In the name of Jesucristo. Amen.
"This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!" Now repeat after me and say it like you mean it: "This is the day the Lord has made…. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!" By God, I'll make joyful Christians out of you yet!!
Now I want all of you to turn to Psalm 100 and I want us to say it together and say it like you mean it, with a loud voice and your lungs full of joyful air! Psalm 100
Easter 2
Acts 5:27-33, Psalm 34:15-22, John 3:31-36
… for he gives the Spirit without measure.
Measuring, weighing, analyzing, counting, verifying, certifying, judging…
So many of our common activities require us to figure things out.
We get the picture of day upon day spent in trying to arrive at conclusions that will allow us to live another day.
Of course, living another day seems to be a metaphor to those who are healthy and wealthy.
Fall 2010 Visitors Weekend
First Reading: Ephesians 4:1-6
Psalm: Psalm 122
Gospel: John 17:6a,15-23
In the summer of 2001 I accepted the call to become the rector of a parish which had recently undergone a somewhat catastrophic split over the issues of the day. My predecessor, the majority of the vestry, and about 150 members of the parish had left to form a new parish no longer in the Episcopal Church.
