Easter 2017

Morsels & Stories: I talked about Mary Magdalene and easter eggs.   Sermon:  Christ is Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia!     The lessons can be found by clicking here.  I worked most closely with Mt 28:1-10.   Listen:

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Fear and Love, Good Friday 2017

Today 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:

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Funny, Tenacious, Kind, Maundy Thursday 2017

How would you describe your Church? Without using family, loving, welcoming, or community.   The lessons can be found by clicking here.  I worked most closely with Jn13:1-17, 31B-35.     Listen:

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Betrayed, Spy Wednesday 2017

Holy Wednesday is called Spy Wednesday because this is the day, tradition holds, that Judas went to betray Jesus to the High Priests.     The lessons can be found by clicking here.  I worked most closely with Jn 13:21-32.   Listen:

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Dry Bones and Creation, Lent 5 2017

Morsels & Stories: I talked about the liturgical epiclesis.   Sermon: Every three years this reading is not only an option in the Vigil service but is read on Lent 5.  I love Ezekiel with the dry bones.   The lessons can be found by clicking here.  I worked most closely with Ezekiel 37:1-14.   […]

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Loved, Lent 4 2017

Morsels & Stories: I read a story from Does God have a Big Toe?   Sermon:  I draw a comparison between the man born blind and Job.   The lessons can be found by clicking here.  I worked most closely with John 9:1-41.   Listen:  

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Living Water, Lent 3 2017

Morsels & Stories:  As we’ll be reading banns of marriage for a parishioner I talked about the history of marriage and why we don’t often reads banns anymore. Sermon: Phoenicians, living water, and inimical seas. The lessons can be found by clicking here.  While I worked with both Exodus 17:1-7 and John 4:5-42, I was […]

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Blessed, Lent 2 2017

Morsels & Stories: I talked about pnuema and ruach and the wordplay Jesus and Nicodemus engaged in.   Sermon:  Abram is blessed to be a blessing.  What he, and we, get wrong and the enduring good news of God’s blessing.   The lessons for today can be found by clicking here.  I worked most closely […]

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Know who you are, Lent 1 2017

Morsels & Stories:  I talk about our Old Testament reading and apples and pomegranates.   Sermon: What part of resisting temptation is having a community know and remind us of who we are?   The lessons can be found by clicking here.  I worked most closely with Matthew 4:1-11.   Listen:  

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Through a Baptismal Lens, February 2017

Stories & Morsels: I talked about one of the symbols of baptism, it’s history and presence in St Peter’s Baptismal Font.     Sermon:  Leviticus, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Baptismal Covenant.   You can find the lessons by clicking here.  I worked most closely with Leviticus 19:1-2,9-18.   Listen:

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