Sermons

Advent II: God sends us messengers; voices crying out in desert places; smoothing, straightening, leveling; preparing the way. And all the while, these deeply faithful ones call us to let go of the old; to lay down every single solitary thing that keeps us from embracing God’s newness.

Advent I: Though we hope for the new world as an act of God, we can begin even now to live as if that world was our present reality.

Christ the King: In Jesus, all that God is, all that God loves, all that God imagines resides and rules and reigns among us.

Pentecost XXIII

Pentecost XXII: We are not unfamiliar with the false gods that would seek our allegiance, our identity, our service.

All Saints Day: God promises a day is coming when death’s shroud will be destroyed; when God wipes every tear from our eyes, when we will be glad and rejoice.

All Saints Day: In the Beatitudes Jesus is not so much telling us what we ought to do as he is telling us what God is already doing.

Pentecost XX: I challenge you: what song has God placed on your heart? What song has God placed on the hearts of all of us?

Pentecost XIX: Indeed, the great New Testament scholar John Dominic Crossan says that’s the most important feature of the story: Jesus has to ask for a coin.

Pentecost XVIII: Are we going to find ways to speak about and worship God that are coherent with the language and idioms of the twenty-first century, or are we going to persist in practices that speak to us but nobody else?