Sermons

Pentecost XIX: Humility is…an essential piece of accepting the invitation from God to set aside our own aspirations, our own designs, in order to know God’s hopes for us.

Cathedral Day: The measure of the quality of our faith, the Old Testament prophets taught, rests on the character of justice in the land, and the measure of justice is how we treat the poor.

Pentecost XVII: It’s what sets Christianity apart from other religions—the wild claim that at the heart of the universe is this relentless love, generosity, and compassion that will not stop no matter what.

Pentecost XVI: We have received in our faith just one thing: an invitation to relationship. Relationship with God and with all of God’s people.

Pentecost XV: We Christians believe that God cares about our work, our vocation or calling, and that in some way God’s purposes are involved in the work we do.

Pentecost XIV: To understand God’s reconciling work we have to spend some uncomfortable time at dinner with Jesus.

Pentecost XIII: Jews call the Sabbath “the crown of creation” because on that day the gift of all the rest of the week is to be celebrated in gratitude and peace.

Pentecost XII: Where we expect the Prince of Peace we find the prince of division; instead of cool breezes we find promises of fire; instead of peace at home we hear of families broken apart. What is going on here?

Pentecost X: Obituaries are the world’s score card. Eulogies are God’s score card. Most of us have a tendency to spend more time and energy building obituaries than eulogies, but in the end it is the eulogies that have the most meaning.

Pentecost IX: When the cravings of our appetites and the excesses of our desires are literally making ourselves and God’s creation sick, we need to take an accounting of what fields we are searching in for the meanings and values of our lives.