The Rev. Jimmy Abbott

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Jimmy Abbott

  • Strike the Rock

    The Rev. Jimmy Abbott Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 28, 2014 Exodus 17:1-7 Strike the Rock Every February, the Episcopal Diocese of Texas gathers for our annual council. At this annual council we worship together, we meet Episcopalians from across the state, and we vote on stuff. We vote on people to fill slots for… Read more

  • Stuck in the Middle

    Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 14, 2014 Exodus 14:19-31 My family did not go to church when I was a kid. When we did go to church, it was to the Episcopal church. But honestly, we only came for the holy days. We were those people who sat in your pew on your Christmas and… Read more

  • Good News/Bad News

    Sermon for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost September 7, 2014 Matthew 18:15-20 There is one sentence in the English language that truly frightens me. It happens all the time when I’m sitting in my office and someone comes in and says, “I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.” And you know what comes… Read more

  • Profit & Loss

    Sermon for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost August 31, 2014 Matthew 16:21-28 In the spring of 2002, I took the SAT II in mathematics. I was a junior in high school, and I was looking for a way of getting out of college math. I passed the SAT II. I don’t know how, but I… Read more

  • Transformation

    Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost August 24, 2014 Romans 12:1-8 When my father first started working in the early 1970s, he got a job at a small oil company in southern California. He showed up every day at nine. Worked all day. And then he left at five. Sure, work had its stress but there was… Read more

  • The Rebel Side of Heaven

    Sermon for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost July 27, 2014 Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 I went to seminary at Virginia Theological Seminary, just outside Washington, D.C. One Friday night, me and my buddies took the subway into D.C. to see one of our favorite musicians, Langhorne Slim. I don’t know how to describe Langhorne Slim –… Read more

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The Rev. Jimmy Abbott serves as the twelfth rector of historic Trinity Episcopal Church in Galveston, Texas.

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