Sermon for Trinity Sunday May 26, 2013 John 16:12-15 The dining room table is set. It’s loaded with your family’s favorite food. The candles are lit. The finest china and crystal and silver is laid out. It’s a big family dinner with all of your aunts and uncles and cousins. But you don’t get to Read more

The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday Sunday, May 12, 2013 Acts 2:1-21 I needed a translator. Badly. There I was in an old beat up Volkswagen bus in some dingy back corner of the Dominican Republic. We bumped down the road full of pot holes, blasting merengue music. The driver yelling at pedestrians and beating on Read more

The Sixth Sunday of Easter Sunday, May 5, 2013 John 14:23-29  Two days a week, I wake up to the same words. Two days a week, I hear, “Hi there, I’m Tom Moreley from Exercise TV. And I hope you’re ready for twenty minutes of yoga for hips, your buns, and your thighs.” Now before Read more

The Fifth Sunday of Easter Sunday, April 28, 2013 – 10:30 AM Revelation 21:1-6 Imagine with me for a moment: it is three days before Christmas, December 22nd. And by virtue of your laziness or procrastination or a simple aversion to spending money, you haven’t bought any Christmas gifts. You look at your list of Read more

The Fourth of Sunday Sunday, April 21, 2013 Revelation 7:9-17 Is there no decency left? Is there no goodness, no charity, no love remaining in this world? Is there no respect for human life? Is there no hope? Is there no forbearance? No tolerance? Is there no loving God? Is there no God who protects Read more

Sermon for the Third Sunday of Easter & Holy Baptism April 14, 2013 Acts 9:1-20 The fun of eating at a Chinese restaurant is, of course, the fortune cookie. I think they always put it with your check so you’re in a happier mood when you see the bill. Last week I ate at one Read more