The Rev. Jimmy Abbott First Sunday of Advent December 2, 2018 I Thessalonians 3:9-13 Houston is crazy, mixed up, whacky place to live. Think about it – nestled here along the Gulf of Mexico, the Port of Houston sees more foreign tonnage cargo than any other port in the country. We have Interstate 10, so Read more

The Rev. Jimmy Abbott Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost November 11, 2018 Psalm 127 Armistice Day On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the guns of the Great War stopped their raging. Armistice Day. Exactly one hundred years ago today, the massacre that was World War One came to Read more

The Rev. Jimmy Abbott All Saints’ Sunday November 4, 2018 Revelation 21:1-6a It was Saturday, April 18, 1981. The night before Easter. I looked it up, it was a pleasant 69 degrees that evening in Houston. The people of Holy Comforter gathered for worship in this church, this building, for the very first time. And Read more

The Rev. Jimmy Abbott 22nd Sunday after Pentecost October 21, 2018 Job 38:1-7, 34-41 For a time, I was a chaplain at the Children’s Hospital in Dallas. Whatever you might think I saw, believe me, I saw worse. But there was something about being a chaplain there, as opposed to being a parish priest like Read more

The Rev. Jimmy Abbott Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 30, 2018 Mark 9:38-50 Thanks be to God – the Astros are going back to the playoffs. It’s unfathomable, isn’t it? We watched them toil away in misery for years, and now, now, look at us. You remember just how awful those years were? Made worse Read more

The Rev. Jimmy Abbott The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 9, 2018 James 2:1-17 Chimneys For thousands of years, people have gathered around fire. Obviously, before electricity, the fire provided warmth and light. It was where food was cooked. From prehistoric caves to the great nomad caravans – the fire was this great egalitarian meeting Read more