Camp, violence, and religion – sermon for 7 June 2015
This is the fourth of a series called “Preaching the Big Questions.” We took a break for Pentecost and for Trinity Sunday, but we return with this fourth Big Question: Why is there so much violence...
View ArticleWill only Christians be saved? – sermon for 14 June 2015
This is the fifth of a series called “Preaching the Big Questions.” This week’s Big Question: Will only Christians be saved? My basic answer is that I don’t know for sure. It’s God’s business. Again,...
View ArticleWe are perishing – sermon for 21 June 2015
[The Readings – Job, Psalm 107, 2 Corinthians, and Mark] In this sermon, I offered few answers. I wonder about where Jesus is in events like the terrorism in Charleston. I wonder where we are supposed...
View ArticleSufficient – Sermon for 5 July 2015
[The Readings, track 2] The second reading today was from St. Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. It’s a strange letter to read all the way through. Perhaps in part because, if the scholars are...
View ArticleLearning to see – sermon for 12 July 2015
[The readings, track 2] St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians begins with a bang. I read it and read it this week trying to wrap my thoughts around it. There’s so much going on in this passage and it...
View ArticleHealed – sermon for 19 July 2015
[The Readings, track 2] Lots of talk about shepherds and sheep in today’s readings. It’s familiar language in our Bible, and a couple of times a year it shows up again, the language of raising and...
View ArticleAsk and Imagine – sermon for 26 July 2015
[The Readings, track 2] Morning and Evening prayer both end with a benediction that goes: “Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from...
View ArticleMeet in a meal – sermon for 16 Aug 2015
[The Readings – track 2] Of course Jesus offers himself to us in bread and wine! Make a list of all the activities that humans get up to. Put that list on your whiteboard. It’s a pretty long list. Then...
View ArticleA big secret – sermon for 20 Sept 2015
[The Readings – track 2] There is a strange feature that runs throughout Mark’s gospel. Each of the 4 gospels has its own mood, its own feel, the same way movies do. You can tell in an instant when you...
View ArticleWhat do angels have that we don’t? – Sermon for 4 October 2015
[The Readings – track 2] This might be my favorite sermon this year! I open this sermon with a frank and blunt reminder that, despite what Jesus says about divorce in today’s gospel, The Episcopal...
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