Sermons by David Keyes
A Selection of Sermons
David Keyes on preaching and sermons:
"Nearly one thousand times now, I have stood in the pulpit and attempted to say something that would be worth speaking, and worth hearing. Something that might strike a chord and change a life. Nearly one thousand times now, I have confronted the knowledge that I would be challenged to somehow bring some comfort to people who are suffering, usually in silence, from loneliness, loss, rejection, terminal illness, anxiety, depression, setbacks of all sorts, confusion of all magnitudes.
That I have been allowed to try to live up to this challenge sometimes amazes me. It amazes me that I have been given such a chance to, as Reinhold Niebuhr put it, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."
At a raucous farewell celebration at All Souls
Church-Unitarian in Washington, DC, Rev. Keyes' walking stick, symbol of interim ministry, is returned by congregation president Meredith Higgins-Hargrave.
A selection of sermons delivered in 2007-8 in Ann Arbor are available from the congregation's web site.
Click on the links below to read a sampling of Rev. Keyes' archived sermons:
