Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God.  Cast all your anxiety upon him. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. Let me tell you a little about a friend of mine.  Mark died about fifteen years ago.  He was a member of our home...

In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. “And I will reveal myself to you,” is what Jesus says. Now, he is instructing and trying to comfort the disciples. They still don’t really understand what this “in between” time is all about. But he says, “Just...

Jesus said, “Have I been with you all this time…and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. This sermon is, more or less, what I said in school chapel this week.  We...

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Amen. So Jesus is talking to the Pharisees. He’s talking to the Pharisees. He is speaking to the very people who in the story, he calls, “Thieves...

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. So we have moved from the Gospel of John, now to the Gospel of Luke. So if you notice some little differences in the story from what we’ve been reading, that is why. So, these two disciples are going to Emmaus,...

Jesus said, “As the Father has sent me, so I send you…” In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. Some of you have heard me tell the story before.  When I was just five years old, my best friend and his little sister died in a fire.  ...

Were you there when they crucified my Lord? These words come from a beloved hymn.  We will sing it later as a wooden cross is brought into the church.  The hymn is a spiritual in the Black church tradition.  It comes out of four hundred years of suffering and...

His blood be upon us and upon our children. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. Not long before he became Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams wrote a short book. It’s called Christ on Trial:  How the Gospel Unsettles Our...

I will put my breath in you and you shall live.  And you shall know that I am the LORD. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. As some of you know, my wife is a native New Yorker.  Tracey is from Brooklyn.  And although she has lost...

In the Name of the Father the Son and The Holy Spirit, amen. Lots of people make the joke: see what happens when you miss church one Sunday? You have to preach the whole chapter of John 9. So, this is about seeing and not seeing. Being blind to things or seeing the...

    The love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. Sermons about the Samaritan woman are too often simplistic morality tales that completely...

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May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Amen. It is Lent! Can you believe it? It is Lent. And today, we have a story that shows the true character of the son of God, without a doubt....

For the Lord himself knows whereof we are made; he remembers that we are but dust. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. It has been a rough couple of weeks around here.  It started on Tuesday morning a week ago, when Martha Joseph...

When the disciples heard this, they fell to the ground and were overcome by fear. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Get up and do not be afraid.” In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. As I was telling the children, Jesus is...

Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored?” In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. According to Stanley Hauerwas, a native Texan whom Time Magazine once called...

For God chose what is low and despised in the world (the things that are not) to reduce to nothing the things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. Tell out my soul the...

Jesus said, "Follow me, and I will make you fish for people." In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. Andrew and Peter leave their nets behind.  James and John leave their boat and their father behind.  Millions of people through the...

Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. “Veni, vidi, vici.”  (I came, I saw, I conquered.)  Julius Caesar wrote these words to report a famous conquest.  They may remind...

I am the Lord. I have called you in righteousness.  I have taken you by the hand and kept you. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. This week, as I was thinking and praying about the baptism of Jesus, I was reminded of a photograph...