Writings and Sermons
The lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with Luke 15: 1-3, 11b-32. Coming home again is hard. (There will be a few moments of silence before the sermon begins. Thank you for your patience.) Listen: Lent 4, 2013
Read MoreI remember being not that little and watching the concession-person at the carnival magically spin the cotton candy into a fluffy pink ball to carry as we went home. Well, at least as we started home. I don’t think the cotton candy ever made it all the way home. Once I started eating my ball […]
Read MoreLink: The Fig Tree and The Gardener Summary of what I was saying and why: This was a hard text to read this spring and a harder text to preach. To read the parable of the fig tree in the context of a church that is closing that’s hard. But the Gospel is the Gospel […]
Read MoreThe lessons for Sunday can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with Luke 3:1-9. Today Jesus tells us the parable of the Fig Tree (and the Gardener). (There will be a few moments of silence before the sermon begins. Thank you for your patience.) Listen: Lent 3, 2013
Read MoreDue to a Church swap this week, I was behind the altar but not in the pulpit across town. So no sermon. Here are some of my favorites from around the interwebs. A lot about chicken and stars: Priest Lightcap reminds us that Jesus is the “the mama hen who will place herself between the […]
Read MoreIn the last few days, I’ve seen at least two articles speculate about how Millennials might just be important to the future of the Church and radically change the nature of the Church. Apparently, my age-peers and I are not the natural heirs the Baby Boomers and do not want to merely continue what was […]
Read MoreLink: Knowing our story Summary of what I was saying and why: After everything that last week was, I didn’t know where I was going with with this week’s sermon. But I kept hearing echoes of remember who you are. Coupled with the reading from Deuteronomy and the experience of growing up in Montana this […]
Read MoreThe lessons for Sunday can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with Deuteronomy 26: 1-11. Knowing our story helps us tells us who we are. Our story tells us why we do the things we do. Our story, the story of the people of God, reminds us that we are Beloved. (I […]
Read MoreThe lessons for Ash Wednesday can be found by clicking here. I worked with The Exhortation. “If it ain’t about Jesus, then it ain’t about nothing at all.” With all due apologies to everyone who successfully taught me grammar, it’s worth remembering. Because Lent should be all about Jesus. (There will be a few moments […]
Read MoreLink: The Flawed Inner Circle Summary of what I was saying and why: Last week I had to announce that my parish is closing. As I was trying to write that letter I knew that part two, sort of unofficially, would be this sermon. I knew how the letter would end. I knew that part […]
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