Sermons & Newsletter Articles

It’s Wild Out There

In December 2020, The Weather Channel rolled out a new tagline: Get Into The Out There. This replaced its 2013 tagline: It’s Amazing Out There. And I don’t know if it was wishful thinking, or some confusion on my part, or if I was conflating two things I’d heard, but I thought the 2013...

Our Lives Are Not Sound-Bites

Year C 1 Kings 19:15-16,19-21 Psalm 16 Galatians 5:1,13-25 Luke 9:51-62 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… Today’s Epistle and Gospel are about freedom and commitment… Paul writes that Christ has set us free for freedom…  and that we’re to use our freedom to become slaves to one another… and that if we’re...

A Plate of Spaghetti

Year C Isaiah 65:1-9 Psalm 22:18-27 Galatians 3:23-29 Luke 8:26-39 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… According to an article on the Bon Appetite website…  an “i” on the end of an Italian noun indicates that it’s plural…  while an “o” or an “a” indicates that it’s singular…  so fettucino is the word...

Baptized into Three-Fold Mystery

Year C Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Psalm 8 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… I like magicians…  I think the first magician I ever knew about was Harry Houdini… doing the seemingly impossible in his Water Torture Cell… for those of you who are too young to remember…  they locked...

Adolescents in the Garden

Year C Genesis 11:1-9 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 Acts 2:1-21 John 14:8-17 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… The Book of Acts…  written by Luke…  was written about twenty years before John’s Gospel…  and it tells the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit…  the Advocate…  the Paraclete…  the one promised in today’s...