Category Archives: Matthew Kieswetter

Sunday, October 17, 2021: Hebrews 5:1-10 Mark 10:35-45 I started becoming aware, the other day, about how I have come to approach faith (and preaching) in a sort of two-fold way where on one hand we recognize something universal and relatable in our faith, while on the other hand, we also find something strange and […]

Sunday, October 10, 2021: 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Matthew 6:25-33 There’s a quote from Henry Ward Beecher: “What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.” He was a 19th century American minister, and brother of the abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe. [Again:] “What I spent, I had; What […]

Sunday, October 3, 2021: Mark 10:2-16 There’s a portion of the American Episcopal Church’s website where they post and archive sermons for every Sunday and festival of the year. I don’t use it too much; I sometimes read a bit for some research and inspiration. Sometimes I copy a particularly good snippet and paste it […]

Sunday, September 19, 2021: James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a; Mark 9:30-37 It would be very easy to come away from these readings with the general lesson to ‘not be a jerk.’ To be nice. And maybe that’s why the great theologian and reformer Martin Luther didn’t have much time for James, because it’s easy to see it […]

Sunday, September 12, 2021: James 3:1-12 Mark 8:27-38 A little story from just a few weeks ago someone you might know — we’ll call him “Tom” — sent me home with a couple pots of beautiful yellow flowers (black eyed susans, or something along those lines). It took me a few days before I planted […]