#sermon — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sermon, aggregated by home.social.
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/peters-denial-re-entry/
I look at the story of Simon Peter’s denial of Jesus and the resurrection story about Jesus asking if Simon loves him (both as told in John’s gospel) and what they says to us about self-judgment, reconciliation, forgiveness, and inclusion.
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#sermon : a talk on a religious or moral subject
- German: die Predigt
- Italian: sermone
- Portuguese: sermão
- Spanish: sermón
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “Esther & Mordecai,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/esther-mordecai/
We need each other. We need each other to help us be brave. We need each other to help us grieve, especially when a whole community has experienced trauma. We are grounded in connection.
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “Esther & Mordecai,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/esther-mordecai/
We need each other. We need each other to help us be brave. We need each other to help us grieve, especially when a whole community has experienced trauma. We are grounded in connection.
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Pastors Using AI to Help Write Sermons Grapple With Where to Draw the Line
A divide is growing over AI-assisted preaching in American churches; ‘Martin Luther is rolling over in his grave.’
1/2 of all pastors say they use AI for brainstorming or idea generation. A 1/4 use AI to help write their sermons, up from 12% in 2024.
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Pastors Using AI to Help Write Sermons Grapple With Where to Draw the Line
A divide is growing over AI-assisted preaching in American churches; ‘Martin Luther is rolling over in his grave.’
1/2 of all pastors say they use AI for brainstorming or idea generation. A 1/4 use AI to help write their sermons, up from 12% in 2024.
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “Hope Anchors the Soul,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/07/12/hope-anchors-the-soul/
Using a passage from Hebrews, I look at what hope that anchors the soul looks like and how it is different from passive, common hope.
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The manuscript of today’s #sermon, “The 10 Commandments,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/the-10-commandments/
In this sermon, I talk about how the 10 Commandments were a gift to help a newly freed people live in community, to help them be grounded in connection. They can help us in the same way, just as the radical idea of equality articulated in the Declaration of Independence can help us in the United States live in community and be grounded in connection.
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “Adam and Eve,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/adam-and-eve/
Looking at the second creation story in Genesis, I invite us to see how humans are created to be in relationship, that we are grounded in connection.
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Vatican rejects proposal to allow sermons by Catholic women
https://piefed.social/c/news/p/2166422/vatican-rejects-proposal-to-allow-sermons-by-catholic-women
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Vatican rejects proposal to allow sermons by Catholic women
https://piefed.social/c/news/p/2166422/vatican-rejects-proposal-to-allow-sermons-by-catholic-women
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “Walk in Newness of Life,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/06/21/walk-in-newness-of-life/
Jesus invites us to come and die—but not for death's sake. Jesus invites us to take up the cross that we may walk in newness of life. Baptism is a sign of that paradox and that transformation.
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✝️🗣️🌐🌏❤️🛐💁🏿♀️*[The Lord's Prayer!]*✝️🗣️💁♀️*{& JESUS SAID!*“*& when you pray!*you must not be like the hypocrites!*For they love to stand!*& pray in the synagogues!*& at the street corners!*that they may👉
Matthew 6:34*& 5-15
#Jesus #Teaching #The #Lord's #Prayer #World #Sermon #On #The #Mount #Peace #Father #Christ #Savior #Light #Holy #Spirit #Eternity #Amen #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Gentleness #Understanding #Love #Forgive #One #Another -
☁️🌈☁️💖👑🕊️💦❤️🔥🗣️📖📜🏩💒✌️🫂🌟💫💗✝️🗣️🌐🌏🩵💁🏿♀️*(*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS THE FOLLOWING IS AN ACCOUNT WRITTEN BY “DECIPLE Matthew” OF “JESUS’” WORDS AS PART OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT AS “JESUS” WAS TEACHING US ALL IN THE WORLD WHO THAT WILL OPEN THEIR HEART’S!*EYE’S!*MIND’S!*EAR’S!*& SOUL’S TO HEAR TRUTH!*ON SUBJECT HOW WE SHOULD PRAY TO OUR FATHER LORD GOD ALMIGHTY BY “The LORD’S PRAYER!)👉
Matthew 6:34*& 5-15
#Jesus #Teaching #Lord's #Prayer #World #Sermon #On #The #Mount #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Hope #Faith #Truth -
☁️🌈☁️💖👑🕊️💦❤️🔥🗣️📖📜🏩💒✌️🫂🌟💫💗✝️🗣️🌐🌏🩵💁🏿♀️*(*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS ON THIS REALM OF THIS EARTH WE NOW LIVE IN!*THE FOLLOWING IS AN ACCOUNT WRITTEN BY “DECIPLE Matthew”👉
Matthew 6:34*& 5-15
#Jesus #Teaching #The #Lord's #Prayer #World #Sermon #On #The #Mount #Peace #Father #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Devotional #People #Remember #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Caring #Hospitality #Helping #Others #Gentleness #Understanding #Everyone #Unity #Love #And #Forgive #One #Another -
☁️🌈☁️🛐🗣️✝️👑🕊️💦❤️🔥📖📜🏩💒✌️🫂✍️🌐🌏💜💁♀️*[JESUS SAID]*“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow!*for tomorrow will be anxious for itself!*Sufficient for the day is its own trouble!”👉
(Matthew 6:34*& 5-15)
#Jesus #Teaching #One #Day #At #A #Time #Do #Not #Be #Anxious #The #Lord's #Prayer #World #Sermon #On #The #Mount #Peace #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Gentleness #Understanding #Love #Forgive #One #Another -
☁️🌈☁️🛐🗣️✝️👑🕊️💦❤️🔥📖📜🏩💒✌️🫂✍️🌐🌏💜💁♀️*(“THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT” AS “JESUS” WAS TEACHING US ALL IN THE WORLD WHO THAT WILL OPEN THEIR HEART’S!*EYE’S!*MIND’S!*EAR’S!*& SOUL’S TO HEAR TRUTH!*FOR EXAMPLE ON SUBJECTS*"One Day At A Time!*& Do Not Be Anxious!*& The LORD’S PRAYER!)👉
(Matthew 6:34*& 5-15)
#Jesus #Teaching #One #Day #At #A #Time #Do #Not #Be #Anxious #The #Lord's #Prayer #World #Sermon #On #The #Mount #Peace #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Pray #Heaven #Hope #Faith #Truth #Understanding #Love #Forgive -
☁️🌈☁️🛐🗣️✝️👑🕊️💦❤️🔥📖📜🏩💒✌️🫂✍️🌐🌏💜💁♀️*(DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS ON THIS ENTIRE EARTH THIS IS AN ACCOUNT WRITTEN BY “Matthew” OF “JESUS’” WORDS AS PART OF “THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT” AS “JESUS” WAS TEACHING US ALL IN THE WORLD WHO THAT WILL OPEN THEIR HEART’S!*EYE’S!*MIND’S!*EAR’S!*& SOUL’S TO HEAR TRUTH!👉
(Matthew 6:34*& 5-15)
#Jesus #One #Day #At #A #Time #Do #Not #Be #Anxious #The #Lord's #Prayer #World #Sermon #On #The #Mount #Peace #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Heaven #Hope #Faith #Truth #Understanding #Love #Forgive -
☁️🌈☁️🛐🗣️✝️👑🕊️💦❤️🔥📖📜🏩💒✌️🫂✍️🌐🌏💜💁♀️*(DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS ON THIS ENTIRE EARTH THIS IS AN ACCOUNT WRITTEN BY “Matthew” OF “JESUS’” WORDS AS PART OF “THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT” AS “JESUS” WAS TEACHING US ALL IN THE WORLD👉
(Matthew 6:34*& 5-15)
#Jesus #Teaching #One #Day #At #A #Time #Do #Not #Be #Anxious #The #Lord's #Prayer #World #Sermon #On #The #Mount #Peace #Christ #Savior #Holy #Spirit #Heaven #Hope #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Gentleness #Understanding #Love #Forgive #One #Another -
☁️🌈☁️💛👑🕊️💦❤️🔥📖📜🏩💒✌️🫂✍️✝️🗣️🌐🌏❤️💁🏼♀️*[*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS ACROSS THE WORLD THIS IS AN ACCOUNT WRITTEN BY “DECIPLE Matthew” OF “JESUS’” WORDS AS PART OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT AS “JESUS”👉
(Matthew 6:34*& 5-15)
#THE #CURIOUS #STRIVE #TO #BE #HOLY #Jesus #Teaching #One #Day #At #A #Time #Do #Not #Be #Anxious #The #Lord's #Prayer #World #Sermon #On #The #Mount #Peace #Father #Christ #Savior #Light #Holy #Spirit #Eternity #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Faith #Truth #Understanding #Love #One #Another -
🌞🩵🌐🌏🩷💁🏿♀️*DEAR BELOVED CURIOUS KIND!*& LOVING FRIENDS GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!🌞👉
(Matthew 6:34*& 5-15)
#FOR #THE #CURIOUS #Jesus #Teaching #One #Day #At #A #Time #Do #Not #Be #Anxious #The #Lord's #Prayer #World #Sermon #On #The #Mount #Peace #Father #Christ #Savior #Light #Holy #Spirit #Eternity #THURSDAY #Devotional #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Helping #Others #Gentleness #Understanding #Everyone #Unity #Love #And #Forgive #One #Another -
The Old Testament is not a collection of disconnected stories. It is one unified story pointing to Christ.
Jesus is the Word of the Lord fulfilled in Christ.
📖 Blog: https://www.scottlapierre.org/the-word-of-the-lord-fulfilled-in-christ/
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “Creation: God’s First Incarnation,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/creation-gods-first-incarnation/
A suppressed Christian understanding of creation goes beyond seeing as an object to seeing it as the first incarnation of God. I explore this idea and its call to us today.
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[Worship Service] Sermon - "Exercising The Mind Of Christ" Jun 7 2026
https://odysee.com/@firstfilipinobaptistchurchtoronto:3/jun72026:2
https://rumble.com/v7ay5g4-worship-service-sermon-exercising-the-mind-of-christ-jun-7-2026.html
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “Voting Is a Sacred Act,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/voting-is-a-sacred-act/
Exercising our vote is a key way for Christians to work for justice and resist oppression.
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “Voting Is a Sacred Act,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/voting-is-a-sacred-act/
Exercising our vote is a key way for Christians to work for justice and resist oppression.
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So, apparently, one of the #Silicon Valley's benevolent overlords is teaming up with a fictional #Pope to deliver an #AI #sermon for the ages. 🤖🤝⛪ Because clearly, what the world needs right now is another grandiose speech no one asked for, delivered in languages the average smartphone can barely translate. 🌍📱
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html #Valley #Tech #Humor #Futuristic #HackerNews #ngated -
A good Example is the best sermon.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalamanac #admonishment #advice #example #goodexample #leadbyexample #model #sermon #teaching #wordsanddeeds
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Do we need a backup plan for when it seems like #God's Word is being defeated by “#evil"? https://youtube.com/live/6tJ5I7k1Qeg
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “Believing Is Seeing,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/believing-is-seeing/
In this sermon, I explore how doubt is a vital part of being a person of faith, even our doubt about the resurrection, and that faith helps us see the resurrection, the “glimmers of holy keep interrupting our gaze.”
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#sermon : a discourse or address
- German: die Predigt
- Italian: sermone
- Portuguese: sermão
- Spanish: sermón
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A daily challenge to chain words together @ https://wordwallgame.com
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Who Will Be Romero Today?
Romero Rally Flyer 1990On this day we remember Archbishop Óscar Romero, murdered on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass. The church remembers him not simply as a tragic victim, but as a martyr whose blood was joined to the blood of the people he refused to abandon. Vatican sources still name him what so many already knew him to be in life: a “voice of the voiceless,” assassinated at the altar because he would not stop speaking for the poor.
Romero was killed soon after one of the most fearless sermons of the twentieth century. Addressing soldiers and police, he said that they were killing their own campesino brothers and sisters, and that God’s law stood above the commands of violent men: “Thou shalt not kill.” He declared that no soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God, and he ended with that thunderous plea: “In the name of God… cease the repression!”
That is why Romero remains dangerous. He did not speak in abstractions. He did not bless power from a safe distance. He did not soothe the conscience of empire. He named the sin directly. He named the victims directly. He named the moral responsibility of those ordered to carry out injustice. And for that, he was silenced by a bullet at the altar. Yet even in death he was not silenced, because martyrdom is a form of speech the powers of this world do not know how to answer.
Ten years later, in 1990, his name was still summoning people into the streets. The flyer for the Washington march commemorating Romero’s assassination called for an end to U.S. war in Central America, a march from the Capitol to the White House, and even nonviolent civil disobedience after the rally. It named the demands plainly: end U.S. aid to El Salvador, withdraw U.S. advisers, stop repressing the people, end the war against Nicaragua, lift the trade embargo, normalize relations. That call was real, and it was public. It survives in archival collections even now.
And I remember that day not as a line in a history book but as something lived in the body. Ten years after Romero’s assassination, I was arrested outside the White House after I and other activists built a miniature Central American village there. We were trying, in our small and vulnerable way, to make visible what policy papers and patriotic speeches tried to hide: villages, families, campesinos, the poor, the disappeared, the threatened, the dead. We were insisting that Central America was not a chessboard for Washington, but a place of human beings made in the image of God.
Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.
#AntiWar #ArchbishopRomero #assassination #ÓscarRomero #campesinos #CentralAmerica #ChristianPeacemaking #ChurchAndState #civilDisobedience #ElSalvador #ElSalvadorCivilWar #faithAndPolitics #humanRights #immigrantJustice #Immigration #Justice #LiberationTheology #Martyr #martyrdom #Mercy #Nicaragua #Nonviolence #peaceWitness #propheticWitness #Refugees #remembrance #Romero #Sermon #solidarity #USForeignPolicy #USIntervention #WhiteHouseProtest -
The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “The Good News Is … Revealed Through Nonviolence,” is on my blog at https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/the-good-news-is-revealed-through-nonviolence/
In this sermon, I look at two passages from Matthew’s gospel to explain why I believe the way of Jesus is a way of nonviolence and how there is no such things as a “just war.”
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This week's #sermon was a particularly difficult one to deliver. As I am prepare to transfer into the Anglican Church (ACNA), two Sunday's from now will be my final Sunday at Dunningville Reformed Church as their pastor. The lectionary readings assigned to today gave me an opportunity to #preach into that upcoming event in their and my life. So, yes, this was a difficult sermon to preach, but I also think it was a beautiful one. As such, it seems right to share it on here.
https://strannikjournal.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/pilgrimage-the-journey-of-faith-a-sermon/
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Why does the Church put this reading at the beginning of Lent every year? Why start our forty-day journey here, in the wilderness with Jesus?
Because Lent is meant to be a time of burnishing and refining. It’s a time when we let God’s Holy Spirit burn off the dross and the dregs of our spiritual lives. When all the parts of our lives – and our common life – that we wish weren’t part of us are given over to God for reworking.
The fear that paralyzes us in the face of violence or division – that’s given to God for an upgrade.
The cynicism that keeps us from trusting or hoping – that’s swapped out for a new and better part.
The wounds from trauma, from broken institutions, from years wandering in cultural and spiritual wilderness – those are brought to the refiner’s fire not to be forgotten but to be transformed.
But here’s the crucial distinction: God’s testing refines. The devil’s testing seeks to destroy through calumny and false accusation. God puts us in the crucible to burn away what isn’t gold. The Assayer wants to prove there was never any gold to begin with.
We’ve been in the crucible – personally, communally, nationally. We’ve been tested. And we’re still here. Still gathering. Still faithful. Still trusting, even when that trust has been hard-won and costs us something.
The wilderness doesn’t last forever. Even Jesus’s forty days came to an end. Matthew tells us that after the devil left, angels came and ministered to him. After the testing comes the tending. After the trial comes the care.
This Lent, as we walk these forty days together, may we follow Jesus’s example: standing on the Word of God, refusing the Slanderer’s lies about who we are, trusting that the One who tests us does so not to destroy but to refine, not to condemn but to raise to dignity.
The wilderness is real. The testing is real. But so is the promise on the other side of it. And so are the angels who come to minister when the testing is done.
You can view the entire sermon at this link.
https://entangledstates.org/2026/02/21/the-assayer-in-the-wilderness/ #Sermon -
A quotation from Josh Billings
Whenever a minister haz preached a sermon that pleazes the whole congregashun, he probably haz preached one that the Lord wont endorse.
[Whenever a minister has preached a sermon that pleases the whole congregation, he probably haz preached one that the Lord won’t endorse.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-06 (1871 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82236/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #audience #challenge #congregation #discomfort #enjoyment #homily #pleasing #preacher #sermon #crowdpleaser
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The manuscript for yesterday’s #sermon, “Serving Serves,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/serving-serves/
In this sermon, I look at what it means to “do justice,” to “love kindness,” and to “walk humbly with God” — and at how doing these things serves both the wider community and ourselves.
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The manuscript for today’s #sermon, “Flip the Switch,” is on my blog. https://jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/flip-the-switch/
In this sermon, I look at the call in Isaiah and Matthew to be light for the world and how it isn’t always as easy as flipping the switch—and it sure hasn’t been easy lately. So I look as well at other ways to shine … and to receive light.
