Sermons

Epiphany I: Baptism when we are sealed by the Holy Spirit and marked as Christ’s own forever matters. It’s supposed to make a difference.

Christmas II

Christmas I: Christmas is not a demonstration of divine power. It is exactly the reverse. It is a demonstration of divine weakness.

Christmas Day: Perhaps it is time to recover the power of the tent; a place limited only by the boundaries of our imagination. God’s tent; pitched in the neighborhood; pitched in Jesus; a Word on the move.

Christmas Morning: John is telling us that the One at the center of the universe is present here and among us in the world. In plain speak: Christmas can be anywhere.

Festival Holy Eucharist

Service of Lessons and Carols: At Christmas, God comes pleading: pleading for a place to be born. Pleading: because have you noticed how little space we make for Jesus in our world?

Advent IV: How we can live in a world that has both Botticelli’s Annunciation and school shootings is beyond me.

Bethlehem Prayer Service: At Christmas we are always invited again to remember where our true allegiance lies.

Advent III: What is our call? What is our passion? If we fill in the blank with “I’m a Christian” what does that mean? How do we manifest that in our lives?