An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
As we move closer to the New Year and that threshold Eve between 2021 and 2022, I’ve been thinking of the Israelites standing at the Eve of their entry into the Promised Land. What do you imagine they were thinking,…
Read More Standing On The Threshold Eve – Ponderings And A Prayer For 2022
Photo by Keighla Exum on Unsplash Pecan pie. That’s what I thought about as I was reading today’s gospel (John 1:1-18) and preparing for this sermon. I thought about pecan pie. I know, it’s a strange connection but stick with me. It’s not…
Read More Grace Upon Grace – A Sermon On John 1:1-18
“But who do you say that I am?” (From Proper 16A, Matthew 16:13-20) Let me tell you some of the answers I’ve heard or read. My personal Lord and Savior. The Son of God. God incarnate. He’s my life, the…
Read More A Question to be Lived – A Sermon on Matthew 16:13-20
“I feel like I live with one foot in the past and one foot in the future,” he said. That’s how a friend of mine once described his life. He went on to tell me about events of the past,…
Read More Today is the Moment of Christ’s Presence, A Sermon on Luke 4:14-21
“They have no wine.” With those words Mary speaks a truth about our lives, a truth that at some point we all experience. There comes a day when the wine gives out. The glass is empty. The party is over.…
Read More Wine Time, A Sermon on John 2:1-11
“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 Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 23B, may be found here. The following sermon is based on Mark 10:17-31. The man in today’s gospel has plenty of stuff but something is missing. His life is…
Read More Don’t Confuse Wealth with Life
The collect and readings for today, the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 22B, may be found here. The following sermon is based on Mark 10:2-16. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” Divorce is a question that…
Read More A Soft Heart Heals the Divorces of our Lives
The collect and readings for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18B, may be found here. The following sermon is based on the second part of the day’s gospel, Mark 7:31-37. “They brought to him a deaf man who had…
Read More Openness Cures Deafness
Someone once asked an old hermit, “Is Jesus your personal Lord and Savior?” “No,” he said. “I prefer to share him with others.” There is wisdom in the hermit’s words. The Christian life is not about “me and my Jesus.”…
Read More Communal Believing – The Nicene Creed, Part 3
Interrupting the Silence 