[Propertalk] Fwd: Sermon for Proper 27B - Part 2

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From: Judy <judy_boli at ecunet.org> 
Date:11/07/2015  10:16 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Propertalk <propertalk.topic at ecunet.org> 
Subject: [propertalk.topic] Sermon for Proper 27B 

Dear Friends,

 

This Sunday’s sermon is entitled “Money” and deals with the gospel (Mark 12:38-44).  Here it is:

 

(Part 2 of 2 parts)

 

So check yourself out:

1.  What do your closets look like- or your refrigerator, or kids’ toys, or your CD’s?  Do you have what you need, or do you have stuff you never use?

2.  What do you do with the stuff you don’t use- give it away or store it in case you might need it someday?

3.  What would you do if you won the lottery?

4.  What are other pertinent “greedy-type” questions?

 

One more way to check ourselves out is to listen to one of our Christian heroes- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Two months before he was shot, in his “Drum Major for Justice Speech” he described what he considered important in his life.  This speech was also played at his funeral.  How does your life measure up to his standard?  He said, “If any of you are around when I have to meet my day......tell them not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize, that isn’t important.  Tell them not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards, that’s not important.  Tell them not to mention where I went to school.  I’d like somebody to mention that day that...Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others.  I’d like for somebody to say that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.  I want you to say that day, that...I tried to be right on the war question.  I want you to be able to say that day that...I did try to feed the hungry.  And I want you to be able to say that day, that...I did try in my life to clothe those who were naked.  I want you to say, on that day, that...I did try, in my life, to visit those who were in prison.  I want you to say that..I tried to love and serve humanity.  Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness.  And all of the other shallow things will not matter.  I won’t have any money to leave behind.  I won’t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind.  But I just want to leave a committed life behind.  And that’s all I want to say... ‘if I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he’s traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.  If I can do my duty as a Christian ought, if I can bring salvation to a world once wrought, if I can spread the message as the master taught, then my living will not be in vain.’”

 

 

For anyone who is interested, this sermon and updated African-American wisdom statements are posted on our parish’s web site under “Sermons & Stuff”. The address is: http://www.stpaulsepisag.org .

 

Blessed preaching,

Judy Boli

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Saginaw, Michigan

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