Sermon for Maundy Thursday Thursday, March 28, 2013 I Corinthians 11:23-26 My paternal grandmother died of breast cancer when I was just eight years old. It was  an unexpected tragedy for our whole family. And sadly, just being eight years old, I don’t remember my grandmother all that much. I have faint memories of family… Read more

Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday Sunday, March 24, 2013 Luke 24:14-23:56  Last Thursday marked a day of great celebration for Anglicans and Episcopalians around the world. Last Thursday, the Most Reverend Justin Welby was officially inaugurated as the one hundred and fifth Archbishop of Canterbury. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the spiritual head, the pastoral… Read more

Sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent Sunday, March 17, 2013 Psalm 126 There is a strange, new fad sweeping the country. It is one of the strangest things that I have ever heard. It’s not some new drug. It’s not some new dance move. No, this bizarre fad is weirder than all of that.… Read more

Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent Sunday, March 10, 2013 Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 From the age of five, to the age of twenty-five, I was in school. Twenty straight years of school. Grade school, middle school, high school, college, seminary. Along with that I read scores of books, I tremble at the thought of how… Read more

Sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent Sunday, February 24, 2013 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Like many young boys…I was dumb. In elementary school, I thought I had devised a scheme to get girls to notice me, and to like me. So here was my scheme: I would be obnoxious. Not a bully, but obnoxious. I did… Read more

Sermon for First Sunday in Lent Sunday, February 17, 2013 Luke 4:1-13 We’ve all seen those pictures of Jesus. Nice, calm, serene. Not wanting to upset the apple cart. Just getting everybody to be nice to each other. But then Jesus says something that makes your hair stand on end. “Give everything you own to… Read more