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Sermons:
Children's
Sermons:
 Saints
Luke 6:20-31,
Mat. 5:1-12, Hebrews 11:29-12:2
by Rev. Frank Schaefer
When we think of All Saints Day, we often
think of canonized saints; Christian heroes and heroines, that are no
longer with us--good people, but dead people.
We tend to "canonize" our loved ones who died. The longer they’ve been
dead, the better person they seem to have been. Perhaps this is also the
reason why many of our elders speak so highly of the past ("Back when .
. .in the olden days, . . . " Even in church historical terms, when we
talk about the past, we often refer to it as some sort of "golden age,"
no matter how dreary it may actually have been.
The interesting thing is that while we tend to reserve the expression
"saint" to the ones who went before us and are no longer with us, Paul
actually addresses the Christians at Corinth as "saints" (1Cor.
1:2--"agiois" Greek equivalent to the Latin "sanctus" the root for
"saint"). [continue]
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