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  • The Hometown Disadvantage – A Sermon On Mark 6:1-13

    The Hometown Disadvantage – A Sermon On Mark 6:1-13

    Sixth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 9, Year B – Mark 6:1-13 “Jesus came to his hometown.” He’s left that place where he healed Jairus’ daughter and the hemorrhaging women and has returned to Nazareth. It’s the place where he grew up and spent the first thirty years of his life. He’s come home. Some of Read more

  • Comfort For The Displaced – A Sermon on Mark 1:1-8 for Advent 2B

    Comfort For The Displaced – A Sermon on Mark 1:1-8 for Advent 2B

    In what ways are you living as a displaced person? What parts of your life feel uprooted and disconnected? What is your displacement?  “Comfort, O comfort my people,” are God’s words to displaced people. Isaiah first spoke those words to people exiled in Babylon, people whose lives had been uprooted. Those same words come to… Read more

  • Looking For The Way Home – A Sermon On John 1:29-42, Epiphany 2A

    The collect and readings for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany may be found here. The appointed gospel is John 1:29-42. The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, ‘After me Read more