Writings and Sermons
I had the opportunity to preach at the closing Eucharist of Senior High Camp. The lessons were 2 Samuel 6:1-23 (David dancing) and Luke 4:14-30 (Jesus reading Isaiah in the synagogue). The first lesson read turned out to be from 2 Samuel 2–slight miss-communication there. I invited the campers to carry out with them a […]
Read MoreThe priest for this week had to leave a day early due to commitments at his parish. So I preached and celebrated this morning. We read Jacob’s dream (Genesis 28), Psalm 48, and Jesus’ Transfiguration (Mark 9). Seeing God and building souvenirs. Listen: Family Camp 1, Saturday 7-6-13
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 MoreFirst, the Church isn’t about to end, be it with a whimper or a bang. We are the inheritors of a tradition that has survived the Ascension of Jesus, outward persecutions, inward persecutions (those heresy debates with permanent conclusions), the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and more. All of this changed the Church. The 21st century and […]
Read MoreI read. All sorts and types of things. I read people who agree with me, people who disagree with me, people who almost or mostly do one or the other. I read for work. The Bible, I hope obviously; liturgies and about them; sermons, my own and others; theology; social and political commentary; current events; […]
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