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Full Text I was asked after church in Bible study if I like preaching on Easter Sunday the best. My answer was not as full a yes as might be expected. It is definitely up there, if just for the crowd size. This is not meant as a theological statement – the effectiveness of . . . → Read More: Easter Sunday – A Chance to Have Faith 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 . . . → Read More: The King Comes Anyway… 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 . . . → Read More: This Well is Deep… Full Text Transfiguration is an evocative word. Being creatures in a half dimension of time, we know the past but can’t do anything about it. We don’t know the future, and usually fear it, especially when we know that it will transfigure us. We can either let that fear change us, or we can . . . → Read More: We know the who… Text: John 1:1-14, Heb 1:1-5 Trouble in the World The presents are all bought, if not all paid for by now. St. Nicholas is busy putting stuff under the trees. We are all at that point of the gifting season where it is what it is. Boyfriend and girlfriend will exchange and find out . . . → Read More: Christmas Eve – “Reveiving” Elizabeth Edwards died yesterday. From what I know she died of breast cancer and left two younger children in her philandering husband’s care. She lived her first 50 years in private and a very public final 11. And those last 11 include a book called Saving Graces and final good-bye that included the word faith. . . . → Read More: The Content of Hope or More on MTD (Moralistic Therapeutic Deism) Full Text It is hard talking about this one. Because there is no real answer other than prayer, which I desperately beg of you to do. In that vein, this is Anselm of Canterbury which happened to be the prayer of the day in my prayerbook… Blessed Lord and Savior who has commanded us . . . → Read More: Why Some not Others…  Comments are closed  Matthew, Sermons, Word  All Saints, beatitudes, evangelism, friends, grace, Matthew, mission, prayer, salvation Full Text Text: Luke 18:1-17 Most things have a normal curve outcome – i.e. lots of “c’s”, a few “A’s” and a few failures. As I was writing and practicing delivery, I knew this sermon was inverted – all or nothing. Here is why it could strike out: 1) reference to child sexual abuse, . . . → Read More: The Gospel according to Private Ryan Comments are closed Luke, Sermons absolution, cheap grace, grace, holiness, Kingdom of God, Luke, Private Ryan, sermons Full Text Text: Luke 17:1-10 Luke 14:1 – 17:10 in my reading is one long extended teaching on being a disciple. The text for this sermon is the summary or conclusion of that section. I drew that boundary because in Luke 17:11 Jesus is no longer ping-ponging back and forth between disciples and Pharisees, . . . → Read More: The Disciple’s Life of Repentance Comments are closed cross, grace, Luke, Repentance, Sermons discipleship, freedom of the gospel, gospel, grace, law, Luke, Repentance, sin That title is from the philosopher Hegel and it shows up in all kinds of quackery from the Age of Aquarius to Gestalt to whatever movement someone else is pushing. It is a hardy perennial. Probably because we like finding patterns in things and we are social creatures – “it is not good for the . . . → Read More: The Spirit/Saint of the Age |
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