The Pain of the “Big D” ~ Mark 10:2-16 Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost [Proper 22], October 6-7, 2012 Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, PA – The Rev. Roy Almquist Bob Wortmann was one of the finest Christian laymen I have ever had the privilege of knowing during my career as a parish pastor. Bob was […]
Drawing In or Pushing Out ~ Mark 9:38-50 Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost [Proper 21], September 29-30, 2012 Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, PA – The Rev. Roy Almquist Have you ever heard of St. Telemachus? I must admit I had not until I was preparing to preach on our Gospel lesson. Telemachus was a monk […]
The Topsy-Turvy World of Jesus ~ Mark 8: 24-37 Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost [Proper 19], September 15-16, 2012 Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, PA – The Rev. Roy Almquist An American was on his first trip to Australia. He left the airport and jumped into a taxi to take him to his hotel. As he […]
WHOM SHALL WE SERVE? – Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18 The Thirteenth Sunday of Pentecost [Proper 16], August 25/26, 2012 Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, PA + The Rev. Roy Almquist Walter Wangerin, a contemporary Christian writer, captures our Old Testament lesson in his wonderful paraphrase of Scripture, The Book of God: When Joshua the son of […]
Solomon: The wisest fool – I Kings 2: 10-12; 3: 3-14 The Twelfth Sunday of Pentecost [Proper 15], August 18/19, 2012 Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, PA + The Rev. Roy Almquist This glorious sanctuary and the congregation it shelters bear proudly the name of George Washington. Washington made many contributions to our nation, but […]
An Absalom Moment – 2 Samuel 18: 5-9, 15, 31-33 The Eleventh Sunday of Pentecost [Proper 14], August 11/12, 2012 Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, PA + The Rev. Roy Almquist You do not have to be a football fan to be touched by the death of young Garrett Reid, the twenty-eight-year-old son of Philadelphia […]