Interrupting the Silence

Tag: Blindness

  • The Eye Of The Heart – A Sermon On Mark 10:46-52

    The Eye Of The Heart – A Sermon On Mark 10:46-52

    One of the things that strikes me about today’s gospel (Mark 10:46-52) is Jesus’ question to Bartimaeus, “What do you want me to do for you?”  My first reaction is, “He’s blind. What do you think he wants you to do? He wants to see again.” But then I think about times in my life Read more

  • Here’s Mud In Your Eye – A Sermon On John 9:1-41

    Here’s Mud In Your Eye – A Sermon On John 9:1-41

    I’m going to begin this sermon a little differently from how I usually do. I’m going to start with a visual aid and a little experiment that I hope will help open our eyes.  About ten or twelve years ago we commissioned this icon of Jesus and Philip. Take a good look at the icon. Read more

  • “Let Me See Again” – A Sermon On Mark 10:46-52

    “Let Me See Again” – A Sermon On Mark 10:46-52

    Most of you have heard enough of my preaching that you won’t be surprised when I tell you that I don’t want us to literalize today’s gospel (Mark 10:46-52) and make it about only physical blindness and sight. We often hear this story and think of blindness and seeing in their outward forms. But what Read more

  • Blindness and Seeing, A Sermon on Luke 2:22-40

    Let me tell you a little bit about Simeon, some things you may not know, some things that might surprise you. Simeon is often identified as one of the seventy Hebrew scholars who translated the Old Testament from Hebrew to Greek, what we know as the Septuagent. He surely was aware of Malachi’s prophecy, “The Lord Read more

  • Seeing Our Way to a New Life

    “My teacher, let me see again.” It’s the obvious answer to Jesus’ question. What else would a blind man ask for? It may be the obvious answer but it is not always the answer given. No one wants to be blind. That’s not the question. The deeper question is whether we really want to see. Read more

  • Behold What Your Are, Become What You See – A Sermon for the Feast of the Transfiguration, Luke 9:28-36

    The collect and readings for the Feast of the Transfiguration may be found here. The following sermon is based on Luke 9:28-36. Most of us, I suspect, at some point each day, look in a mirror. We check our hair, our makeup, our teeth, our clothes. Mirrors show us what we look like. While it Read more

  • “Surely we are not blind, are we?” – A Sermon on John 9:1-41, Lent 4A

    The collect and readings for the Fourth Sunday in Lent may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 9:1-41. As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his Read more