Writings and Sermons
Good Friday is hard to preach this year. I generally agree with Nadia Bolz-Weber that we shouldn’t preach from our rawest places, but this is where I–and I suspect most of us–am. The world seems pretty terrible and scary right now. But I also found preaching incredibly important for today because this is where we […]
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Read MoreToday Jesus dies a horrible death. Because of us. Our fear, our need for power. The lessons for today can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with Jn 18:1-19:42. Listen:
Read MoreToday we commemorate Jesus’s death on the cross, an agonizing death on a day full of pain. The lessons can be found by clicking here. Listen:
Read More(The device I use to record sermons failed on Friday. I have several minutes recorded of absolutely nothing. I’m mildly stepping up the research for it’s replacement. Fortunately, I have a manuscript of almost exactly what I said.) The lessons can be found by clicking here. Today Jesus dies. Today we watch and wait. We […]
Read MoreWill you stay? Will you return? Listen: The lessons can be found by clicking here.
Read MoreThe post-Easter work log is competing with the post-Easter exhaustion, so this week we have a sermon round-up. My sermons: Exposed Feet, Maundy Thursday How Incarnation Ends, Good Friday Standing Risen in Baptismal Waters, Easter Vigil Other sermons: Priest Gunn The Great Vigil of Easter: Do not be afraid Priest Pankey “It was unbelievable. Too […]
Read MoreThe lessons can be found by clicking here. I preached on Incarnation and Crucifixion. How did we think the Incarnation was going to end? (The quote is from Tragic Vision and Divine Compassion: A Contemporary Theodicy by Wendy Farley, pg 34) Listen: Good Friday, 2013
Read MoreThe lessons for Good Friday can be found at this link: Good Friday lessons. Good Friday is about love. May our actions be so filled with the same love. (Due to continued technical difficulties, this is nearly what I preached at Nativity’s Good Friday service.) Lisen: Good Friday, 2012
Read MoreThe lessons can be found by clicking here. A sermon for Good Friday Click to listen: Good Friday, 2011
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