Sermons

On Good Friday,March 29,I’ll carry a large wooden cross into the church.I’ll stop at three pointsbetween the entrance to the naveand just up here in front of the altar.At each stop I’ll say“Look on the wood of the cross,on which was raised the savior of the world.O come let us worship.”The next night,at the Easter

Peter has said that Jesus is the Christ,and Jesus is giving the disciples warning and clarification.He is the messiah,and not one that they’re expecting.Jesus is changing the rules and expectationsabout who the Messiah isand what he will do.Rather than coming in military might,Jesus the Messiah, the Son of Man,“must undergo great suffering,and be rejected by

Set us free, O God, from the bondage of our sins,and give us the liberty of that abundant lifewhich you have made known to usin your Son our Savior Jesus Christ;who lives and reigns with you,in the unity of the Holy Spirit,one God, now and for ever. Amen. That was today’s collect,and I love its

May the words of my mouthand the meditations of all our heartsbe acceptable in your sightO God our strengthand our redeemer. Amen.Mark as we read it,is written down.There are themes that emergeand there is foreshadowing.Throughout the narrative, though,Mark tends to get to the point.The stories are straight forward. Today Jesus and his few disciplescome into

Here we are in the season after the Epiphany. On Epiphany, the three magi symbolize other nations recognizing Jesus as the Messiah, affirming that Jesus was born for other people, not just the Jewish community. In our lectionary, the season after the Epiphany is the time where Jesus goes public – events describing Jesus’ divinity

In his book Abide in Peace: Healing and Reconciliation,the Rev. Marcus George Halley says,“The Gospel is an invitation to die to a worldthat is enamored of degradation, discrimination, and deathand rise into a worldwhose foundations are‘eternal in the heavens’ (2 Cor. 5:1).It is a call to a cross-shaped life,one which stands awkwardly and uncomfortablyin the