Fooling with Scripture David Finnegan-Hosey

Sermon preached (remotely) for First Christian Church of Fayetteville, NC, on Pentecost Sunday 2020.

While the story of Pentecost is recorded in Acts 2, this sermon focuses on a passaged from the 12th chapter of Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth about the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

An examen prayer -- a way of reviewing your day or, in this case, your semester, with God -- which I recorded for my Barton College community at the end of the 2020 Spring semester. Two minute explanation and about 9 minute guided prayer.

A guided body scan for the Barton College Community during finals week -- and anyone else for whom it may be meaningful.

**If you or someone you know is in a crisis, help is available. You can call 1-800-273-TALK, or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat -- and more resources are available on my website at christonthepsychward.com/resources**

This morning, I preached at First Baptist Church in Wilson, NC. My texts were 1 King 19:1-15 and Luke 8:26-39. I woke up this morning and realized the sermon I'd written wasn't what I needed to say. So I ditched it, and preached this instead -- on the tough topics of suicide, self-harm, and being the kind of church that's safe for people to share tough stuff in.

A sermon preached for St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Wilson, NC, on a snowy 2nd Sunday of Advent. The texts for this Sunday are Baruch 5:1-9 • Philippians 1:3-11 • Luke 3:1-6.

My thanks to the Rev. Marty Stebbins for the invitation and the 30 or so folks who braved the snow for this morning's services!

I was invited to preach at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Fayetteville on Sunday, November 4, which was All Saints' Sunday as well as the Sunday before the 2018 midterm elections. My sermon was called "Showing Up," and was based on Exodus 1:8-22 and Luke 18:1-8.

I was nervous to preach this sermon in this politically charged time. But this has been a year, and a week, of stepping outside of some of my comfort zones, and this felt like an important time to take a risk.

I snapped the cover photo, of a rabbi speaking in front of the Department of Justice building in Washington, DC, during a Poor People's Campaign rally this past summer.