Courage Sermon

June 2, 2010

St. Luke’s / Prescott

The Rev. Mark Moline

Sunday May 30th, 2010 / Memorial Day – Trinity Sunday

Title:  “Courage!”

This year, Trinity Sunday falls within Memorial Day week-end.  And at first glimpse we seem to have a sort of competition here between this sacred church holy day – Trinity Sunday – and this proud national holiday – Memorial Day.  We seem to have a struggle for the focus of our time and attention between faith and patriotism.  We don’t want either to be overwhelmed by the other.  We don’t want to turn Jesus into a good American, small “d” democrat capitalist because that’s not who he is or has ever been.  He is not an American patriotic figure; but then neither do we want to separate our love for our blessed country from our love for God. Read the rest of this entry »