Sermons

• “Unresting Death” Meets Its Master  (3/9/2008)
  The National Cathedral, Washington DC
• The Raising of Lazarus  (3/5/2008)
  A sermon by Fleming Rutledge circa 1980. Note: There is another sermon on this same text in Fleming Rutledge’s book The Undoing of Death.
• Most Trusted, Most Powerful Name in News  (2/5/2008)
  Myers Park United Methodist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
  The congregation was the Methodist clergy of the Western North Carolina district.
• The Power That Gives Up Power  (9/16/2007)
  Mayfield-Salisbury Church, Edinburgh, Scotland
• "Spirituality" or Holy Spirit?  (6/9/2007)
  First Presbyterian Church, Henderson NC, The Day of Pentecost 2007
• IN MEMORIAM : Alice Dabney Parker  (4/27/2007)
  Sermon by her daughter, The Rev. Fleming Rutledge - April 27, 2007, being the third week of Easter - Emmanuel Church, Franklin, Virginia
  
• What Job Saw  (4/22/2007)
  Trinity Church, New Orleans - Second Sunday of Easter 2007
• Whose Competence?  (3/12/2007)
  Evangelical Covenant Church Conference, Denver 2007 - Note to readers: this sermon is long! I was asked to preach for 50 minutes.
• Jeremiah and the Human Dilemma  (2/11/2007)
  Christ Church, Sheffield, Massachusetts - Epiphany VI, 2007
• O Beulah Land!  (1/17/2007)
  St. Mary's Mohegan Lake, New York - Second Sunday after the Epiphany 2007
• The Things That Do Not Exist  (9/26/2006)
  The Scotland Connection - Sardis Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North Carolina - September 26, 2006
  The occasion for this sermon was a very large gathering of clergy and lay people from the Church of Scotland, which is experiencing steep decline, and members of the four largest Presbyterian congregations in Charlotte.
• The Power of Obedience  (9/1/2006)
  Preached at Bayside Presbyterian, Dio Central Florida clergy conference, and Lenape Valley Presbyterian - Autumn 2006
• The Remaking of the World  (7/2/2006)
  Christ Church, Sheffield, Massachusetts
• Tears From the Rock  (5/11/2006)
  A Good Friday Meditation, The Church of St. Michael and St. George, St. Louis
• Not Ashamed of the Gospel  (3/10/2006)
  College of Preachers, Washington D.C. March 10, 2006
• Who Will Feed the Wolf?  (3/8/2006)
  The Bethlehem Chapel in the National Cathedral, Washington D.C. March 8, 2006
• My Enemy, Myself  (1/17/2006)
  Trinity Church, Princeton, New Jersey
• Waiting for the Dayspring  (12/30/2005)
  Sermon by Fleming Rutledge, St. Matthew's, Bedford, New York, The Third Sunday of Advent 2005
• The Battle Of New Orleans  (10/7/2005)
  Christ Church, Sheffield, Massachusetts, September 11, 2005
• Who is That Masked Man?  (8/15/2005)
  Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, Easter IV, May Day 2005
• Father and Mother of the Ungodly  (6/5/2005)
  Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston
• The God of Small Things: St. Bede and the Evangelical Faith  (5/25/2005)
  Sermon for the Institution of Douglas Holmes as Rector of Grace Church, Camden, South Carolina. The Feast Day of the Venerable Bede, May 25, 2005.
• The God of Small Things  (5/22/2005)
  Durham Cathedral, Durham, England, Easter V Matins, April 24, 2005
• The Lord of the Dance (Edmonton)  (5/8/2005)
  King’s University College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Who is the Good Samaritan?  (5/1/2005)
  Mayfield-Salisbury Church, Edinburgh, Scotland - Easter IV, May Day 2005
• Love Against the Odds  (4/26/2005)
  St. John’s College, University of Durham, England
  In Memoriam: Richard A. Norris, Jr.
• The Devil in the Garden  (4/22/2005)
  Maundy Thursday is an exceptionally rich occasion. In the thirty years that I have been preaching on Maundy Thursday, I have delivered sermons on all the various themes of the night—the gathering for the Last Supper, the footwashing, the sharing of the
• Sermon for Holy Week  (3/26/2005)
  Dying to Live
• A Good Friday Sermon  (3/25/2005)
  DIVINE LOVE MEETS THE STRONGEST ANIMAL
• Palm Sunday 2005  (3/20/2005)
  THE PRICE THAT WAS PAID - Palm Sunday is in some ways an extremely confusing day. I always wonder if people come thinking it is going to be a festival, only to find themselves taking part in a lynch mob. Christianity stands or falls on Holy Week: Jesus Ch
• The Old, Old Story  (3/12/2005)
  The Old, Old Story
• Whose Righteousness?  (1/27/2005)
  Calvin College Worship Symposium
• Naked to His Enemies  (1/2/2005)
  St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Bedford, New York - The Ninth Day of Christmas, January 2, 2005
• The God of Hurricanes (Nantucket Version)  (10/3/2004)
  St. Paul’s Church in Nantucket
• The God of Hurricanes (Duke Chapel Version)  (9/26/2004)
  This has been a hurricane season of ferocious proportions and it isn't over yet. There are a lot of Biblical passages related to storms. These texts are full of drama and big effects, yet they leave us with all kinds of questions about what God is up to.
• Unfair Treatment  (6/28/2004)
  Princeton Theological Seminary, Summer Institute of Theology
• The Mind Behind the Message  (5/17/2004)
  2004 Festival of Homiletics - Washington, DC
• Mortal Memory and the Human Future  (4/25/2004)
  The Parish of St. Matthew, Pacific Palisades - Easter III, 2004
• OK, Mel, But What Does It All Mean?  (3/14/2004)
  The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago
  As the entire American public must know by now, a Roman scourging and crucifixion was almost unimaginably terrible. We didn't always know this.
• God On Our Side (Chevy Chase, Maryland)  (2/8/2004)
  All Saints, Chevy Chase, Maryland
• True Inclusiveness According to the Word of God  (2/6/2004)
  I am certainly capable of making a politically partisan speech, but as a preacher of the gospel I do not do that. I did not do it last Advent when I preached at the National Cathedral on the eve of the Iraq war, and I am not going to do it now. What I do
• God On Our Side (Franklin, Virginia)  (2/1/2004)
  Emmanuel Church, Franklin, Virginia
• Abu Ghraib and the Mind of the Trinity  (6/6/2003)
  Duke University Chapel - Trinity Sunday
  It is known that many, if not most, of the American soldiers involved in the abuse at the prison of Abu Ghraib define themselves as Christians.
  Anyone here today who is a Christian believer must feel this as almost a physical blow against everything
• The Armor of God  (10/24/2000)
  Parish Retreat at Kanuga St. Helena's, Beaufort, South Carolina