Mount Calvary Sermons

FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 2014    MATT 18:21-35   I remember Nicholas’ sermon very well.  Because he preached it every week.  The same one.  Week after week, month after month, for the full fifteen years he was rector of the parish.  But that didn’t matter.  He was never one for poignant illustrations or memorable soundbites or those other devices that we preachers who are lesser people than Nicholas have to employ if we’re to have any chance of people listening to us.  Nicholas didn’t need fancy rhetoric because his message oozed out of him in a way that made you know you were in the presence of holiness.  You almost wanted to take your shoes off.  He didn’t need more than one sermon because you could listen to Nicholas read the phone book and still his words would touch you in a way that you knew this was God reaching down into your soul and giving your heart a great big hug.  He had been to seminary, beca