11.7.21 All Saints Unbound
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A sermon on John 11: 32:44
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9.12.21 Proper 19B: Speak Wholeheartedly
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Sermon for Sunday, September 12th
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8.22.21 Proper 16B: Power of the Armor of God
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Beloved— especially in such times as of this— my hope and my prayers is that as the writer to the Ephesians says we might “be strong in the Lord and in the strength of [God’s] power.” In a world doubled over in pain and suffering… in a world swirling with disinformation needlessly costing people lives… in a world reeling from the costs to our children of imposing ‘normal’ onto that which is not— in our world I pray that we might “be strong in the Lord and in the strength of [God’s] power” and declare the gospel boldly. From where I stand our world is in...
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8.15.21 Proper 15B: Matter Matters
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sermon on John 6:51-58
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8.1.21 Proper 13B: Individual Right to decide for..
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a sermon on 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a
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7.25.21 Proper 12B: Acceptable Loss
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A sermon on 2 Samuel 11
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7.18.21 11B: Compassion
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A sermon on Marck 6:30-34, 53-56.
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6.13.21 Proper6A: Mustard Seeds
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A sermon for Sunday, June 13th on Mark 4:26-34
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5.23.21 PentecostB: Catch Your Breath
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Sermon on Pentecost (May 23, 2021)
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5.16.21 7thEasterB: Jesus and the Holy Potatoes
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... I cannot help but me mindful of the liturgical moment in which we find ourselves. We are in that 7th Sunday of Easter, in the time between the Ascension of our Lord into heaven and the descending of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, upon the ministers, making the church the church and saying ‘it is time.” And so liturgically and actually we find ourselves in that liminal time of transition. We all know that life has changed, and what it has changed into being has not yet unfurled. We hear in that first chapter of Acts, in the time between Ascension and Pentecost that this the...
info_outline“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know summer is near..."
This is the weary, weighty world of the early Christians to whom Mark wrote. Look to the fig tree for summer is near and keep alert for as Jesus just said right before this in chapter 13, “do you see these great buildings, not one stone will remain” Look for the fig tree. Dreamers keep awake.
Beloved, the message for the day is no matter the weary, weightiness of the world, we Christians remain people of hope. The early Christians of Mark’s community knew what it was like to live in a volatile and uncertain world of rubble and put all their dreams on the faithfulness of God in Jesus Christ. They knew what it was like to sit in the generative darkness with only one candle: hope.
In the time of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in which we live, my prayer is that we too look for the fig tree. Even when our world is full of rubble there is still signs of new life of tender branches that will put leaves. Keep awake and alert to the signs of God’s presence that are all around us. Where do you see them?