JM1 Friday: Joyful

June 28, 2013.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Our theme for the summer is “Be Imitators of God.” Our theme for Friday is Joyful. We read about Wisdom delighting in Creation (Proverbs 8) and Jesus’ parable of the wedding feast (Matthew 22). My sermons at Camp are always highly interactive. I do my best to make sure that the gist of the conversation […]

JM1 Wednesday: Merciful

June 27, 2013.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The theme for the summer is “Be Imitators of God.” Our concept for Monday was God’s Mercy. For Chapel we read about Noah and the rainbow (Genesis 8) and Jesus not stoning the adulteress woman (John 8). My sermons at Camp are always highly interactive. I do my best to make sure that the gist […]

JM1 Monday: Mighty

June 27, 2013.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The theme for the summer is “Be Imitators of God.” Our concept for Monday was God’s Mightiness. For Chapel we read about Gideon’s army (Judges 7) and Jesus sending out the Disciples (Matthew 10). My sermons at Camp are always highly interactive. I do my best to make sure that the gist of the conversation […]

Junior Middler Camp 2013

June 27, 2013.Reading time 1 minute.

This is the week I get to simultaneously wear my Priest hat and my Camp Director hat! In large part because I’ve been the priest for this week of camp for 5 years now, I really wanted to maintain that connection with the kids who usually come to JM1. Our Junior Middler Camps are for […]

SR: P6 YrC 6-16-13, Tears, hair, (and blood)

June 19, 2013.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Unfinished Thoughts: “Because you have sold yourself to do what is evil.” We sell ourselves with our money and we sell ourselves with our time. Not all at once, but in one dollar bills and minutes of our time. Our stewardship of ourselves. Sermons I liked: Priest Giroux reminds us that“Jesus is the bomb in […]

SR: Widows and Sons, Proper 5, Year C 6-9-13

June 13, 2013.Reading time 1 minute.

Unfinished Thoughts: (A couple of notes about what I might have preached.) One of my friends and mentors says, “In every group, someone is coming from a funeral and someone is coming from a wedding.” Two crowds meet, the one accompanying Jesus and the one burying the widow’s son. Jesus is present to and with […]

Leaning

June 10, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

I wrote the last post when I should have been packing. I haven’t written since because I’ve been trying to keep up with those things I should have and need to do. But also, I’ve feared, because right now all of the words are hard to write. It is still easy to slip out of […]