Fr. Jimmy offers a provocative and challenging sermon to his new congregation at Holy Comforter in Spring, TX.

the rev. jimmy abbott

Sermon from Sunday
June 3, 2012
Isaiah 6:1-8 

Starting as the new rector of a church is stressful. I have no shame in admitting that. This whole week I have been adrift in a sea of emotions, ranging from joy and happiness to fear and trembling. But this anxious period in my life is nothing compared with my high school senior prom. The whole month leading up to the prom I was a complete basket case. Now, I don’t mean to brag, but merely to state a fact: I was the homecoming king at my high school. So I thought that finding a date for prom would be easy. And oh how I was wrong.

Not one, not two, not three, but four different girls turned me down when I asked them to be my date. My puffed up ego took a pretty serious hit. And the worst part was…

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