An Episcopal Priest's Sermons, Prayers, and Reflections on Life, Becoming Human, and Discovering Our Divinity
Third Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 6, Year B - Mark 4:26-34, the Parable of the Growing Seed. The Sower by Vincent van Gogh - 1. The Vincent van Gogh Gallery. The Bridgeman Art Library, Object 593575, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons…
Read More God’s Seedy People – A Sermon On Mark 4:26-34
Jesus said, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.” Maybe there is something unbearable about God. When have you experienced the unbearable in your life? What happened? How did it come about? In what ways are you experiencing the unbearable today?
Psalm 92:1. "It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to your Name, O Most High." When I was a child, I always received a box of blank thank you notes as a…
Read More Thanksgiving for Everything
At Christmas we often think, and rightfully so, of God’s gift of Jesus to the world. We celebrate and rejoice that God has been born into this world as one of us. God is with us in a new way.…
Read More What are you Giving for Christmas?
"Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people…
Read More As They Love Their Cow
“We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me…
In the Episcopal lectionary the gospel for this past Sunday (John 12:20-33) has some Greeks coming to Philip and saying, "Sir we wish to see Jesus." Philip tells Andrew of this request and together they tell Jesus. I suspect Jesus'…
The Annunciation to the Theotokos (Luke 1:26-38) is an annunciation to the entire human race that the Son and Word of God has become incarnate. What happened physically in Mary happens spiritually in everyone who lives in virginity, that is,…
Read More Birthing God – The Feast of the Annunciation
If the heart is the most authentic temple of God, the truest dwelling place of God, then it is also our true home. It is the deepest and most authentic part of our humanity, the place of wholeness and integration.…
Read More Entering the Temple of the Heart
Interrupting the Silence 