A sermon about discipleship and reconciliation, focusing on the story of Jesus and Simon Peter after the resurrection (and after breakfast). The question is this: what is Jesus healing you to do? Continue reading »
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Trouble in River City
(Sermon for Sunday, January 27, 2013 || Epiphany 3C || 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a) We got trouble. Right here in Corinth. With a capital “T” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for “pool.” Wait a sec. That’s the trouble in River City in The Music Man. Let me try again. We got trouble. Right … Continue reading »
You are my Child
I wrote this song for part of the sermon last Sunday, January 13, 2013. I based it on the line in the Gospel: “You are my Son, the Beloved, with you I am well pleased.” I believe that because we are God’s children by adoption through the Spirit, God says this to us as much … Continue reading »
You are my Beloved
(Sermon for Sunday, January 13, 2013 || Epiphany 1C || Luke 3:15-17, 21-22) Last Monday evening, I sat down to watch a very entertaining football game. Now, I know up here is Pats’ country, so many of you probably didn’t even realize the college football championship game was going on. But I grew up in … Continue reading »
Three Panels of the Story
(Sermon for Sunday, February 26, 2012 || Lent 1B || Mark 1:9-15) Every year on the First Sunday of Lent, we hear the story from the Gospel that tells about Jesus’ time in the wilderness. We hear this story on this particular Sunday because Jesus’ forty days off by himself, fasting in the arid austerity … Continue reading »
First Words
(Sermon for Sunday, October 16, 2011 || Proper 24A || 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 ) Did your parents ever tell you about the first word you ever spoke? More than likely, your first word was “Da,” which is short for, “Daddy, go get Mommy so I can have lunch.” Perhaps, your first word was “Ma,” though … Continue reading »
It’s Love, in Point of Fact
(Sermon for Sunday, May 30, 2010 || Trinity Sunday, Year C, RCL || Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15) At the beginning of the science-fiction film Serenity, the Operative scans through security footage of Simon Tam breaking his sister, River, out of a government-run facility that has been conducting torturous experiments on River’s brain. … Continue reading »
Seeing gasoline rainbows
The following post appeared Tuesday, February 2nd on Episcopalcafe.com, a website to which I am a monthly contributor. Check it out here or read it below. * * * Sometimes, I am too young to hear Jesus’ words in the Gospel. Or too old. Or too naïve. Or too refined. Often I wonder if God … Continue reading »
Love gets its uniform dirty
Last post, I began with an illustration from The Princess Bride, and it seems once you get me going, I have trouble stopping. Here’s another one. At the beginning of the film, Buttercup commands the farm boy, Westley, to do several menial tasks – polish her horse’s saddle, fill buckets with water, fetch a pitcher. … Continue reading »
