Sermons

Advent III: We, too, need songs of joy and exultation as we so eagerly await the new light piercing through the dark.

Advent II: Our waiting for God is intended to be both patient and impatient.

Advent I: We were daring to imagine a future we could not yet see, where a tiny slip of a seed could hold out such a vision of God’s love for this world.

Thanksgiving Day: Sometimes we just forget to look for the good. We get out of practice.... We must give thanks to become grateful.

Reign of Christ Sunday: It looks as if real kingship is not about how much power someone has, but whether someone is rooted in God’s life and truth, which is the essential structure of the universe itself.

Pentecost XXIV: Only when we know that this life is not our final destination, are we actually liberated to work with courage and hope.

Pentecost XXIII: There is an invitation here to live your life fully, by giving it away, pouring it out with all the passion, energy, intelligence, imagination, and love in you.

All Saints Day: We need saints in every generation to make explicit what it means to live Christ’s life in our time.

Pentecost XXI: The real point of this story is that Bartimaeus wanted conversion in his life, and he asked Jesus for healing precisely so that he could follow him.

Pentecost XX: Jesus is the master teacher who loves us and wants us not only to think differently, but to live differently.