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...God is persistently calling. God is here and present and with us all the . And no in some sort of “po ani” way, but God is all in — we see this most clearly (not dim eyes) on the cross. Beloved, God says to us: hineni.
And so, when God calls out to you, whether it is in the dead of the night with a calm, clear voice, or a whisper that slips in among the chatter, or in the words of another— however it may be. May you be like Abraham and Jacob and Moses and Isaiah and Samuel. And I whole myriad of women whose voices weren’t recorded: May you say, hineni. May you recognize the presence of God in world. May you, like Eli, start to see where you are complicit in the work of scoundrels. May you, like Samuel begin to know — not just know about— our God. And when your eyes grow dim, remember the lamp has not gone out. May the Light of the world illumine your life so that in the words of our collect, you “may shine with the radiance of Christ’s glory.” However long it may take you, however ridiculous it may be, listen for God and have the courage to say, hineni.
My original version of this sermon was first preached at the San Jacinto Youth Convocational Lock-in/St. Mary’s in 2012 and again in 2015. What can I say, this passage of scripture and its interpretation is a core part of my canon.