Writings and Sermons
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 […]
Read MoreThis 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 […]
Read MoreUnfinished 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 […]
Read MoreUnfinished 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 […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
Read MoreIn the last 18 month I’ve been present at the closing of three Churches. I was their priest; they had been a cluster when I was called. In each case it was excruciating and sad. In each case it was the right choice. Churches, the actual communities, the buildings located in towns and cities, are […]
Read MoreLink: The Church, Sacraments, and Unity, Easter 7, 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: Jesus’s prayer for the unity of the Church is great. And hard to preach. Because it is so patently not what is. Also, while I can encourage many of the other things Jesus says and Christians can, mostly, […]
Read MoreThe lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with John 17:20-26. Jesus prays for his Church, us, to be one. So we spent some time discussing the Church and what and how we are. Listen:
Read MoreLink: Wellness and Fear, Easter 6 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: Healing miracles are always challenging for me. How do I preach the truth of miracles (which I believe) without forgetting that too many of us are not healed? Do you want to be made well? Sometimes the answer isn’t yes; […]
Read MoreThe lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with John 5:1-9. Jesus said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” And we touch on Monty Python’s The Life of Brian, the TV show House, and fear.
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