An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
I used to try to understand, explain, or make sense of this day, Good Friday. I don’t anymore. I’ve given that up. What do you say on days like this? What can be said? Besides, most of the explanations that…
Read More On Days Like This – A Sermon On John 18:1-19:42 For Good Friday
Some of the funniest and most terrifying aspects of my life are my self-contradictions - the contradictions with which I live, the contradictions that live within me. My wife would probably say they are more aggravating and frustrating than funny. Most days my life is a living contradiction between what I say and what I do, what I think and what I say, the values I claim to hold in my life and the way I live my life. My guess is that you have contradictions in your life too. I don’t think they’re unique to me. What if every contradiction is a messenger telling us about a deeper truth?
Pilate asked Jesus, “Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?” (John 19:10) Pilate thinks he holds the cross of Christ. Jesus knows otherwise. How we see and understand the cross is…
Read More Who Holds the Cross of Christ?
The collect and readings for Good Friday may be found here. The following sermon is based on John 18:1 - 19:42. I have come to believe that the crucifixion did not kill Jesus. Crucifixion is merely the external force and…
Read More Crucifixion, A Love Story – A Sermon for Good Friday; John 18:1-19:42
The collect and readings for the Second Sunday in Lent, Year B, may be found here. The following sermon is based on Mark 8:31-38. Then Jesus began to teach his disciples that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering,…
Read More Denying Self, Choosing Christ – A Sermon on Mark 8:31-38, Lent 2B
September 14 is the Feast of the Holy Cross. In the Eastern Church it is called the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The historian Eusebius, in his Life of Constantine, tells how that emperor ordered the erection of a complex…
Read More The Feast of the Holy Cross
"We glory in your cross, O Lord, and praise and glorify your holy resurrection; for by virtue of your cross joy has come to the whole world. May God be merciful to us and bless us, show us the light…
Read More A Good Friday Reflection
Interrupting the Silence 