The Rev. Jimmy Abbott

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Jimmy Abbott

  • You are a Fish

    Sermon for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany January 26, 2014 Matthew 4:12-23 It was a small pond that sat nestled into a hillside. The water was rarely clear, but we didn’t mind. That small pond was just a short drive from our high school. And every day of our senior year in high school Read more

  • 2014 – Year of Vision

    Sermon for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany January 19, 2014 – Holy Comforter Annual Meeting John 1:29-42 “What are you looking for?” Those are the first words of Jesus in the Gospel of John. “What are you looking for?” Andrew and the other disciple are looking for a liberator, a leader, a redeemer to Read more

  • Pass Go. Collect $200.

    Sermon for the First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of our Lord January 12, 2014 Acts 10:34-43 Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200 hundred dollars. Monopoly is a great game, but I hate drawing that card. You’re sent directly to jail, and you do not pass Go. You do not collect 200 Read more

  • A Light in the Darkness

    Sermon for the first Sunday after Christmas December 29, 2013  John 1:1-18 Music marks the passing of the generations. My grandparents were born in 1914. And I remember my grandfather using this ancient contraption, and you would put this giant black plasticy circle on it. The thing would spin around and music would come out. Read more

  • The King is Born

    Sermon for Christmas Eve December 24, 2013  Luke 2:1-20 This last Thanksgiving Day, our daughter was born. This is our first child, and I’ll gladly admit that I have no idea as to what I’m doing. But what I tell you is this: the first time I picked her up my world changed as I Read more

  • The Most Interesting Spirit in the World

    Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent December 22, 2013 Matthew 1:18-25  In museums, he is allowed to touch the art. He once brought a knife to a gunfight…just to even the odds. Mosquitoes refuse to bite him, purely out of respect. Who is this man? He’s the man in the TV commercials, who, although 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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