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The Bread We Eat – A Sermon on John 6:24-35; Proper 13B
The collect and readings for today, Proper 13B, may be found here. The following sermon is based on John 6:24-35. We live as hungry people in a hungry world. Everyone is looking for something that will sustain and nourish life, something that will feed and energize, something that will fill and satisfy. Everyone is looking…
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No Longer Drained of Life – A Sermon on Mark 5:21-43; Proper 8B
The collect and readings for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 8, may be found here. The following sermon is based on the gospel, Mark 5:21-43. Do you ever feel like the bucket of your life has a hole in it? That it leaks faster than you can fill it? No matter what you do,…
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Peaceful Storms – A Sermon on Mark 4:35-41; Proper 7B
The collect and readings for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 7B, may be found here. The following sermon is based on Mark 4:35-41. “A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped.” Jesus and his disciples are crossing the Sea of Galilee. They are…
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Redbirds, Seeds, and Weeds: What You See Is Not All You Get – A Sermon on Mark 4:26-34; Proper 6B
The collect and readings for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, Prober 6B, may be found here. The following sermon is based on 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13; 2 Corinthians 5:6-17; and Mark 4:26-34. We live in a world that mostly believes what you see is what you get. We trust our eyes to reveal what is real…
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Call to the Inner Life – Remembering Evelyn Underhill
Today the Episcopal Church remembers Evelyn Underhill. This post is from three years ago. However, the truth of Underhill’s words echo loudly. The Church needs more voices like hers and more lives, lay and ordained, like she describes.
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Spiritual Formation – The Missional Challenge and Future of the Church
I suspect that many parishes, priests, and lay persons may not consider spiritual formation as a means of or opportunity for outreach. Instead, parish outreach tends to focus on corporal needs such as hunger, homelessness, poverty, health care, visiting the sick and imprisoned, and issues of justice. This most certainly must continue. It was a…
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Putting the Pieces Back Together – A Sermon on Mark 3:20-35
The collect and readings for the Second Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 5B, may be found here. The following sermon is based on Mark 3:20-35. I remember a gentlemen telling me that his greatest fear is that someday he will be found out. “What do you mean?” I said. “That they will know I’m not who…
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Gregory of Nazianzus on the Three and the One
No sooner do I conceive of the One than I am illumined by the Splendor of the Three; no sooner do I distinguish Them than I am carried back to the One. When I think of any One of the Three I think of Him as the Whole, and my eyes are filled, and the greater…
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A Sermon for Trinity Sunday – Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17
The collect and readings for the First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday, may be found here. The following sermon is based on Romans 8:12-17 and John 3:1-17. When my younger son, Randy, was about four years old he would wake up about four thirty in the morning and call out, “Dad, Daaad! Can I sleep…
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Interrupting the Silence 