Sermons & Newsletter Articles

Not Just In, But Into

Year B Genesis 9:8-17 Psalm 25:1-9 1Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… After the flood God declared…  I have set my bow in the clouds…  and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth… and this is where we get...

Horizon Found

Year B Joel 2:1-2,12-17 Psalm 103:8-14 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… As we grow up…  some things catch our attention…  some things make more of an impression on us than other things do…  form us in some way…  when I was almost a...

Transfiguring Love

Year B 2 Kings 2:1-12 Psalm 50:1-6 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… Today is the Feast of St. Valentine…  yes…  Valentine’s Day and Transfiguration Sunday too… and as I sat at my desk a few days ago…  writing this sermon…  I wondered about...

Essential Workers

Year B Isaiah 40:21-31 Psalm 147:1-12, 21c 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… Essential workers…  who are they…  there’s a little bit of blurriness in my timeline…  but early in the pandemic…  perhaps in March or April…  it seemed they were all of the...

Are we there yet?

When I was about seven or eight, and my family drove to visit relatives in Brooklyn or Long Island, or Pennsylvania, I would almost always ask my parents, “Are we there yet?” I had faulty and self-serving concepts about time and distance, and in my eagerness, thought that getting from point A to point...