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 »
Tag Archives: wherethewind
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 »
A Minstrel’s Christmas Song
I wrote “A Minstrel’s Christmas Song” back in 2006, and I’ve been blessed to sing it every Christmas morning since at various churches. This recording is from this Christmas morning at St. Stephen’s. If you’d like to download an mp3 of the live recording (mistakes and all!), click here. Continue reading »
Runaway (Davies Tales # 10)
Aidan Davies knew something was wrong, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on what. Several nights over the last couple of weeks, his father, Alastor, had arrived home, walked straight into the kitchen without a “hello” to anyone, slammed the door of the microwave (in which Lucy had placed his cold dinner), and stabbed … Continue reading »
On the Road
(Sermon for Sunday, October 28, 2012 || Proper 25B || Mark 10:46-52) He can’t see them, but he knows they are coming. As he sits by the roadside, he tastes the dust cloud stirred up by their approach. He feels small tremors in the ground caused by their steady, tramping steps. He hears the snorts … Continue reading »
Letting Go of the Grail
(Sermon for Sunday, September 30, 2012 || Proper 21B || Mark 9:38-50 ) The floor of the ancient structure splits open, revealing a gaping chasm. Nazi sympathizer Elsa, the treacherous blonde bombshell, who earlier in the film skewers the heart of our hero Indiana Jones, falls in, only to be caught at the last second … Continue reading »
The Spotlight
(Sermon for Sunday, September 16, 2012 || Proper 19B || Mark 8:27-38) I put the guitar down on the wooden bench, dropped my right knee to the root-strewn ground, and produced the ring from my pocket. The green light that shone through the trees of the outdoor chapel glinted off the diamond and sapphires, a … Continue reading »
Christ be with Me, Christ Within Me
(Sermon for Sunday, August 12, 2012 || Proper 14B || John 6:35, 41-51) I don’t know about you, but these last two weeks, I have felt afraid. Last week, I was excited to go and see the new Batman movie. But then a self-proclaimed Joker – Batman’s chief enemy – calmly walked into a midnight … Continue reading »
Antagonists
(Sermon for Sunday, July 15, 2012 || Proper 10B || Mark 6:14-29) Today’s Gospel reading gives us an entire story about one of the antagonists of the Gospel. Antagonist. This is a tricky word because often in current culture “antagonist” is simply synonymous with villain, enemy, or bad guy. Famous antagonists – a Jeopardy category, … Continue reading »
The Seeds of the Kingdom
(Sermon for Sunday, June 17, 2012 || Proper 6B || Mark 4:26-34) When I was nine or ten years old, I walked into the church across the street from our house really early on a particular morning. Ash Wednesday had always been one of my favorite days. I’m not sure why, but I think I … Continue reading »
