Tag: John 3:1-17

  • Filling The Empty Space – A Trinity Sunday Sermon On John 3:1-17

    Filling The Empty Space – A Trinity Sunday Sermon On John 3:1-17

    Today is Trinity Sunday but I’m not going to say much about the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit. Today, I’m more interested in the empty space. Are you familiar with the empty space in the Trinity? Let me show you what I’m talking about.  This is Andrei Rublev’s icon of the Holy Trinity. Read more

  • In the Nighttime of Life – A Sermon on Genesis 12:1-4 and John 3:1-17

    In the Nighttime of Life – A Sermon on Genesis 12:1-4 and John 3:1-17

    There comes a time in each of our lives when understanding and knowing give way to the darkness of not knowing and not understanding. The journey of faith, it seems, is a journey through the darkness. Maybe we all come “to Jesus by night.” Read more

  • Daytime Lives and Nighttime Lives – A Sermon on John 3:1-17

    Daytime Lives and Nighttime Lives – A Sermon on John 3:1-17

    Nicodemus “came to Jesus by night” (John 3:1-17, Lent 2A). I wonder if that’s not true for all of us. I wonder if we don’t all come to Jesus by night. Some have said that Nicodemus was hiding in the darkness. He was embarrassed. He was scared and didn’t want to be seen or caught. Read more

  • A Sermon for Trinity Sunday – Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17

    The collect and readings for the First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday, may be found here. The following sermon is based on Romans 8:12-17 and John 3:1-17. When my younger son, Randy, was about four years old he would wake up about four thirty in the morning and call out, “Dad, Daaad! Can I sleep Read more