Sermons

Pentecost XXII: O God, help us never to confuse what is quite legal, with what is just and right in your sight. Amen.

Pentecost XXII: To turn a blind eye, and I would say a now blackened eye, to those in our country who are most dependent on our support is morally wrong.

Pentecost XXI: Formulaic “Thank Yous” may abound, but it’s hard to find an authentic expression of real thanks.

Pentecost XX: It’s more than tragic—in fact it’s shameful—that faith communities, especially Christian ones, continue to be complicit in putting our children at risk and abetting the attitudes that oppress them, thereby encouraging the aggressors who would subject our children to pain, humiliation, and violence.

Pentecost XIX: This beacon sitting up on this hill invites all to come in and be a part and experience God in this place.

Pentecost XIX: In terms of today’s reading from Revelation, an angel is someone who takes God’s side in the ongoing battle between good and evil.

Pentecost XVIII: We claim to love the gospel of peace and to long for God’s peaceable kingdom. And yet thirty million soldiers bear arms for the nations of the earth.

Pentecost XVIII: We overdose on noise because we are ignorant or afraid of what we might hear coming from within once the exterior distraction stops.

Pentecost XVII: All of us are precious in ways we have not even yet begun to understand.

Pentecost XVII: God’s love, says Jesus, seeks, searches, and saves; reaches, intrudes, turns things upside down, finds, and restores.