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Biblical Text of Sermon: John 1:43-51 The modern world is one full of distractions. I’m the geek that as a kid you could find reading an encyclopedia. My schoolmates were sure that “Encyclopedia Brown” was biographical. But today I find myself reading a few pages and flitting off to something else. . . . → Read More: The Exclusive/Inclusive Jesus Text: John 1:6-8,19-28 Who are you? That is an identity question. And it is interesting to me that a world that is constantly giving you something to “build your brand” around or upon there is little talk or understanding of identity. Colin Cowherd – ESPN Radio announcer – is one of the most . . . → Read More: Who are you? Scripture Text: John 8:31-36 Traditions tend to pile up. There is nothing inherently wrong with traditions. Most traditions are in fact healthy and good. But they tend to pile up. Just think about Christmas. How many things are there that you “have” to do? Does the holiday just . . . → Read More: The Puzzle of Reformation Day When we tell the story of Jesus there really are two biblical starting points. You can start like the Gospel of John – ‘in the beginning was the word…”. Or you begin like Matthew & Luke with genealogies or human origin stories. One is called a Theology from Above. The eternal Word . . . → Read More: Hymns We Sing – Praise Be to Christ Full Text Link As with so much else in America, if you want to cut to the soul or the bone of a matter you need to listen to Lincoln. (And Silent Cal Coolidge, but he didn’t live in exciting times, but his Autobiography and letters are deeply full of wisdom and heart.) But Lincoln . . . → Read More: The Civic Religion and the Sure Hope Full Text I find it ironic that in an age full of irony with a people tuned to understanding layers of meaning taking place Palm Sunday in some quarters is being transformed into Passion Sunday. Well not at St. Mark in West Henrietta. Since we have been reading from St. John’s Gospel, I took the . . . → Read More: The King Comes Anyway… Full Text If you had the power to raise the dead, but it cost you your life, would you do it? That is the central question. I think we could answer that question no. Jesus answered that question yes. There are a whole bunch of spiritual truths that come from the sacrifice and resurrection pattern. . . . → Read More: Groaning (Jesus’ reaction to Lazarus) Full Text Text: John 9:1-41 This text is too big. A man goes from being blind through various confessions to the worship of Christ at the end. From the point of his healing, until that end, the story is about Jesus but Jesus himself is absent. It’s a tight allegory on a Christian life with . . . → Read More: Catching Up Full Text We had a double baptism this week. Yes, it breaks a liturgical rule about lent, but the text was perfect – living water, John 4:5-26. The entire segment of John from Nicodemus through the Samaritan Woman and the well with a picture of actual baptisms(!) in between is full of baptismal images and . . . → Read More: This Well is Deep… Full Text The text of this sermon was John 1:29-42. That is two days of John the Baptist’s preaching and the evangelists account of the first disciples of Jesus. By telling us this account -which is starkly different that the synoptic (Matt/Mark/Luke) tradition, the evangelist invites us to ponder our own discipleship journey. Where . . . → Read More: “Rosebud” – Discipleship Journeys |
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