Mount Calvary Sermons

NINTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 2016 Luke 10:38-42 I know it's happened to you, because it happens to me to me frequently. You are in a meeting, and the subject matter is less than riveting and your mind wanders to something much more interesting, and you don't hear another thing. Now just let me say that this never happens to me in meetings in Mt Calvary, not even vestry meetings. But it does happen to me in local meetings of clergy. There's that blood-curdling moment when my thoughts are a thousand miles away – on a beach, or up a mountain or at a sports stadium and I am dragged shockingly back into the room by the words, "What do you think, Duncan?" Now I have developed some foolproof coping mechanisms in that stressful moment. And telling the truth that you find this conversation boring, is not one of them. So, when this happens to me a in a clergy meeting I usually say, "Well, I think we consider what Jesus says in John's Gospel." And this always does the trick because Episcopal clergy don't know their Bibl