Interrupting the Silence

Tag: Shadow

  • The Light In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death – A Funeral Sermon on Psalm 23

    The Light In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death – A Funeral Sermon on Psalm 23

    Today we “walk through the valley of the shadow of death” (Psalm 23). Today the familiarity, poetry, and beauty of the 23rd psalm have a different tone. The shadow is dark and the valley is long and deep. I will not mislead you by denying that reality or letting platitudes and sentimentalities echo off the… Read more

  • A Sermon for The Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas)

    The Feast of the Presentation of our Lord in the Temple was February 2. It is a fixed date feast always falling forty days after Christmas. The collect and readings for the feast may be found here. The appointed gospel is Luke 2:22-40: 22When the time came for their purification according to the law of Read more