Kyle Matthew Oliver

Category: Sermons

  • First Sermon on Evangelism

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    This is the first evangelism sermon I’ve ever preached. I’m grateful to David Gortner here at VTS and to so many of my classmates for their help shaping my heart for this ministry. PDF | Audio | Text: Our hearts have to go out to Jonah. He’s a tough prophet to admire, but an easy…

  • Sermon on Waiting, Proper 28

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    Here’s today’s sermon in PDF form (inspired by my recently encounter with some old Hacker Within pals, I’m back to using LaTeX for sermons–Milad Fatenejad’s “radhydro” package, no less), in audio form, and pasted below (via latex2rtf). **************** Waiting is a perilous business. Perhaps you don’t need to be convinced of this. Perhaps you can…

  • Last week’s sermon

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    I keep forgetting to post last week’s sermon. The main text is Ezekiel 18. All in all, the experience of preaching for the first time at St. Paul’s, K Street, was a good one. Like so many readings from scripture, our lesson from the Book of Ezekiel this morning can be summed up like this:…

  • “The resurrection of the body…”

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    My systematic theology professor recently made a comment about the preaching Christians hear this time of year, to the effect that it was a kind of a shame that few Easter sermons share the power and specificity of your average Good Friday sermon. She continued, that, rather, “Easter needs to be this great truth, and…

  • Last Sermon for a While

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    I’ve preached three of the last four Sundays, so I’m looking forward to a bit of a homiletical hiatus. Still, it’s been a rewarding month for this preacher-in-training. Here’s what I had to say today on John 4:5-42: Throughout the centuries, readers of today’s story from John’s gospel have encountered the passage, taken in its…

  • Little Rock…Rocks

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    So, I was in Little Rock this past weekend preaching at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. What a thoroughly lovely parish and a fun experience. If you ever get to Little Rock, definitely check out Whole Hog; it had been far too long since I had real barbecue. Anyway, here’s the sermon I preached on Romans…

  • Sermon Catch-Up

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    It’s been a busy couple of weeks (see forthcoming post), so I’m just now getting around to posting my sermons from the second and third weeks of Advent. They were each shortened a bit on the cutting-room floor, but this ought to give you the gist. Indeed, the Advent 2 sermon was given from the…

  • Sermon: “How do we solve the sandwich?”

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    I preached my five-minute sermon on Mark 5:21-43 today in homiletics class. I share it below in case (like at least one person I know) you enjoy reading sermons online at every possible moment. Note that it was written for and preached solely to an academic audience; I understand that the very premise of “solving…

  • I’m Not A Poet…

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    …but I play one in homiletics class. Here’s my poetic/midrashic take on Mark 5. Was this poem largely an excuse to write something in iambic pentameter? Yes. But I do really wonder about what it must have felt like for the disciples to be constantly thinking narrow-mindedly only to be rebuked (in words or, as…

  • Preacher Man, Part 2

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    Madison was, as always, a delight. (The Twitter feed is probably a good summary of my weekend there, in case you’re interested.) I still remember visiting Madison during my senior year of high school and saying to my girlfriend, “Man, I can’t believe we’re going to get to live here for four years.” It turned…