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_outlineThe narrative of our lives is woven into God’s holy narrative. As people of God, I hope that we articulate our story in terms of God’s salvation story. This is the time of the year that we start to reflect on the year, and in the midst of creative dumpster fire ornaments commemorating 2020 you might be hanging on your Christmas tree, I invite to also reflect on the liturgical year and entering the Story. Entering the Story, God’s story means recognizing that there are moments in our lives — even this year— that are Epiphany and Lent, Holy Week (that one is long) and Easter, Pentecost and Christmas, Advent and Annunciation. We find ourselves and our story woven into the sacred Story....
At some moment or another, we feel seemingly valueless in the eyes of the world. Like we do not matter, or are acceptable losses or expendable, or not worth another liberty of convenience. And in those moments, God’s grace is within us. God message, God’s annunciation is the conception of grace, the implanting and multiplying, and moving, and growing of grace within us so that it can be born out into the world. Beloved, we have a God who lifts up the lowly, and fills the empty and annunciates to those who feel valueless that in God’s eyes they are favored ones. I hope that in your life, in your story, you have you seen moments of annunciation.