Writings and Sermons
Unfinished Thoughts: Some combination of these ideas: Plumb lines, surveying and the challenge of being human( ie getting things wrong) A bit of Paul (Rope climbing bit/-use the rope, stay close to the wall, belay partner) Don’t forget the stories (people)–this is where I would have tied in the Gospel and, given the week, brought […]
Read MoreLink: Souvenirs Summary of what I was saying and why: We read Jacob’s ladder (Genesis 28:10-22) and the Tranfiguration (Mark 9:2-8). Saturday is the last day of Camp, our theme is Be Imitators of God. I often hear how Camp is the place people best experience God (good) or how Camp is really their only […]
Read MoreI’m not reviewing last week’s sermons because they are part of a larger whole. I preached half of the week, Mike preached half. I don’t believe that our preaching can be unentangled but only half of it is mine to comment on. Unfinished Thoughts: “Stand Firm” “Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the […]
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 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 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 MoreLink: You can listen to what I said here: Broken, Loving Hearts, Easter 5, 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: Love has consequences. Jesus instructs us to love one another and then gets crucified. We love and often get hurt. Love, though, can often be not only transformational but resurrectional. Theology: Salvation […]
Read MoreLink:Dancing, Stretchers, and Sheep, Easter 4 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: This was the second sermon I wrote. The first was was good. And then I was reading one of my favorite poets before bed one night (something I do, but not that often) and suddenly I was thinking about a […]
Read MoreLink: Peter and Promises Summary of what I was saying and why: This sermon was slow to write. The Gospel is about feeding, it’s about love, it’s about Resurrection, and none of that was interesting to me this year. It felt like I’d just done something on the whole obedience bit in Acts and Revelation […]
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