Sermon for Advent II, 2019: Baruch 5:1-9; Luke 1:68-79; Phil. 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6 Gracious and Loving God, you speak to us in many ways and at all times.  May we hear you this day and live what we hear. Being more accustomed to having Handel’s Messiah carry me into the season I am surprised to […]

Readings for Pentecost 24: Zeph 1:7,12-18; Ps 90:1-8,12; 1 Thess 5:1-11; Matt 25:14-30. That we are entering a natural time of darkness was unavoidable 2 weeks ago as we changed our clocks to give us more daylight to start our days.   This sign of darkening times is echoed well in the readings of this Christian […]

Sermon 20160103 – Epiphany Isaiah 60-1-6, Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14, Eph 3:1-12, Matt. 2:1-12 Walls are a worry for me – they seem to be everywhere – and there are ever-new insights into how dependent upon walls is the holding and exercising of power and what can often appear to be “good order”. I think of […]

Sermon Easter 3   Luke 24:36b-48, Acts 3:12-19, 1 John 3:1-7, Ps. 4 About 2 weeks ago in a Bible study session in the chapel in the prison where I serve as chaplain, we spent some time on the Easter gospel text from John which we heard last week.  As the conversation had drifted into speculation […]