Writings and Sermons
Summary of my planned sermon *explanation* I have chronic migraines. Horrible, daily medication chronic migraines. Once, maybe twice a year, a migraine rises to the standing-is-a-BAD-idea lever. That it happened on a Sunday was insult to injury. Thank you to the people of St Peter’s who rose to the occasion.) I was going to preach […]
Read MoreLink: Budgeting Grace, All Saints 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: All Saints was also the first Sunday of our pledge month. And I didn’t want it to be a “saints=money, give us money.” Our response, faithful and wise, to our inheritance is about stewardship. Theology: hagiology and stewardship Jesus Count: low […]
Read MoreLink: Holy Ground 6 Sept 13 Summary of what I was saying and why: These are not happy readings. Lamentations, Timothy needing bucking up, disciples asking for more faith and being told they are slaves. And when I read through them two things stood out Timothy inherited his faith (as we have ours) and the […]
Read MoreThe lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked with all of them a bit. What is Holy Ground? Listen:
Read MoreLink: Ambiguity if not Doubt, 22 Sept 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: Any honest preacher should tell you that this is and exceptionally tough passage to understand and even tougher to preach. The more work I did to understand it, the less I did. So this is my attempt to approach […]
Read MoreThe lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with Luke 16:1-13. The Unjust Steward. A parable that defies any fully satisfactory explanation. Of all the crazy things Jesus says, this one is really out there. The episode of This American Life that I reference is ‘How I Got Into College.” You can […]
Read MoreLink: Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra, P19/OT23 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: We know our stories–the stories of Jesus, the stories of our faith. The stories Paul is an example of. Others don’t understand our references to our stories. Our example is lost in translation. Theology: Evangelism Jesus Count: low Good […]
Read MoreThe lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with 1 Timothy 1:12-17. ‘Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra’ (2nd episode, 5th season of Star Trek the Next Generation) is about understanding and translation. Listen:
Read MoreLink: Community, Sept 8. 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: I’ve spent years now wondering about the question I posed: what kind of community lets the tower go unfinished and laughs at the builder? Is that the community we are/want to be? Then I wanted to create a space for St Peter’s […]
Read MoreThe lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with Luke 14:25-33. Unfinished towers and warring kings–which may be about neither. This is an interactive sermon, I hope it can be heard and understood. My apologies if not. Listen: Notes Bene: >The Anglican Church of Canada uses the Roman numbering system. So […]
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