Sermons

Epiphany II: If we want to stand with Jesus and with Martin Luther King, we’ve also got to stand with those who, like them, die by means of violence.

Epiphany I: What God’s love accomplishes in us is to take our ordinary human life and make it whole, so that we can love freely and live wholly into the joy of being what God created us to be: fully alive, fully human, people.

The Day of the Epiphany: In the very earliest days Christians got it right: they thought of themselves not as a religious system but as a group of people on a shared journey, a path with ethical and spiritual and behavioral implications.

Christmas Day: Our better nature decries this age as consumerist and materialist … yet the proclamation of Christmas is that God has become the chief materialist of all.

Christmas Day

Christmas Eve: If there is one message to be gleaned from all our efforts to celebrate Christmas, it is the audacious affirmation that in the face of all evidence to the contrary, we possess innate goodness.

Carols by Candlelight: What are you doing to prepare your own personal house of prayer, your internal mansion of mind, body, and spirit to receive the greatest gift God gave humankind in taking on human flesh—being born and dwelling and living among us?

Advent IV: The advent of Jesus provokes a crisis for those of confident intellects and convenient faith.

Advent III

Advent I: You’d think that Advent would be an orderly progression from past to future, but it’s actually the other way around. We start with the future and, over four weeks, work our way back to the past.