An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
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…
Read More Here’s Mud In Your Eye – A Sermon On John 9:1-41
Healing the Blind Man of Jericho by Unknown Author - Codex Egberti, Fol 31, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Most of you have heard enough of my preaching that you won’t be surprised when I tell you that I don’t want…
Read More “Let Me See Again” – A Sermon On Mark 10:46-52
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,…
Read More Blindness and Seeing, A Sermon on Luke 2:22-40
“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…
Read More Seeing Our Way to a New Life
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,…
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…
Read More “Surely we are not blind, are we?” – A Sermon on John 9:1-41, Lent 4A
Interrupting the Silence 