An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
After I graduated from seminary Cyndy and I moved to Kerrville where I began work as an associate priest at a large parish. Shortly after arriving I was invited to join a community prayer group. It was a small group…
Read More Turning Points in Life – A Sermon on Matthew 4:12-23
Whatever happens always remember the mysterious richness of human nature and the nearness of God to each one of us. - The Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, died 1893
“And do you come to me?” (From Matthew 3:13-17, Feast of the Baptism of our Lord, the First Sunday after the Epiphany) That’s the greeting Jesus receives from John. John almost seems surprised, taken aback, that Jesus has come to…
Read More He is Always Coming to Us – A Sermon on Matthew 3:13-17
“Now after the wise men had left….” How strange that that is how today’s gospel (Matthew 2: 13-15, 19-23; Second Sunday after Christm) begins. We hear of their departure before we hear of their arrival. The wise men left before…
Read More Holiness Always Wins – A Sermon on Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23
Most commentaries or sermons about today’s gospel, the parable of the unjust steward (Luke 16:1-13; Proper 20, Year C), either begin with or quickly make the point that is it just a strange and difficult text; and it is. It…
Read More The Grace of Accounting for our Life, A Sermon on Luke 16:1-13
The collect and readings for the Seventh Sunday of Easter may be found here. The following sermon is based on John 17:6-19. “Protect them from the evil one,” Jesus prays. We live in a dangerous world. I’m not telling you…
Read More A Lived Amen – A Sermon on John 17:6-19; Easter 7B
The collect and readings for the Feast of the Ascension may be found here. The following sermon is based on Acts 1:1-11 and Luke 24:44-53. We live in a world in which up is better than down. Singers want to…
Read More “Why do you stand looking up to heaven?” – A Sermon for the Feast of the Ascension
The collect and readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter (Shepherd Sunday) may be found here. The following sermon is based on 1 John 3:16-24 and John 10:11-18. She died about two weeks ago. She was young, only in her…
Read More A Laying Down Life Kind of Love – A Sermon on 1 John 3:16-24 and John 10:11-18; Easter 4B
The collect and readings for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 16A, may be found here. The appointed gospel is Matthew 16:13-20. When Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that…
Read More Re-centering – A Sermon on Matthew 16:13-20, Proper 16A
Interrupting the Silence 