September 13, 2020: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. As I was writing this sermon, I kept seeing the sights and sounds of the week against the backdrop of the scriptures, and my heart broke. The picture of a boy who was found holding on to his dog as they…
September 6, 2020: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. I don’t know, but somehow hearing the story from the book of Exodus this morning seems very timely given our current situation. That passage comes just as God is about to throw the 10th and final plague against the Pharaoh and…
August 9, 2020: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Whenever I hear today’s gospel about Jesus walking on the water, I end up with this in my head. [singing] “So you are the Christ. You’re the great Jesus Christ. Prove to me that you’re no fool. Walk across my swimming…
August 2, 2020: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Okay, I admit it…I have been binge watching movies on the Hallmark channel lately, because they were running a Christmas in July movie marathon. Yup – totally going to get called out by the liturgical police, but hey – we need…
July 12, 2020: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. I have never been pregnant myself – it would be nearly impossible now, unless a star is rising in the East somewhere – but I suspect that many women who have been can relate to something we heard in the Genesis…
July 5, 2020: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” Oh what food these words of Jesus are to us who hunger for rest from the ravages of 2020. This year has…
June 28, 2020 – LGBTQ+ Sunday: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. I want to tell you a story about a group of people who had had enough. They were tired of being harassed, arrested, abused, pushed to the margins, killed, rejected, blackmailed, and hated. They were gay men and…
June 21, 2020: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father… Whoever loves father or mother more than me…
June 14, 2020: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Welcome to what the church calls “Ordinary Time.” Ordinary Time. Does this seem like an Ordinary Time for you’all? Now yesterday, I was taking advantage of both being home more, and the slightly cooler weather, so I went out to finish…
June 7, 2020 – Trinity Sunday: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Now, before we get started here, just a public service announcement – let us NOT do as the epistle from 2 Corinthians implores and greet each other with a “holy kiss.” Just not safe right now folks, okay?…
