October 13, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Oh how I love the story we heard today in our Hebrew scripture lesson from 2 Kings about Naaman, the commander of the army of the King of Aram. It is one of the best narratives, and if you…
October 6, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Wow! It is so good to be back! I have missed you all so very much! I prayed for you every day, and held you close in my heart, these past several months. While I needed this sabbatical, and…
June 9, 2019 – The Feast of Pentecost – Mass on the Grass…with Brass!: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. What a joy it is to be out worshiping with all of you here in the midst of God’s beautiful creation. When we started this annual Mass on…
June 2, 2018: [Our guest preacher was Ms. Kelly Mcallister. Kelly is a second grade teacher at Golda Och Academy in West Orange. Her wife Amy is a Tax Attorney with Wilson Elsner in Florham Park, and a member of our Vestry. They have been attending Christ Church since 2014, initially with their children Aidan and…
May 19, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. If you were here last week, you heard about the disciple Tabitha, raised from the dead through the intercession of another disciple, Peter. At the end of that story there was a line that said that our boy Peter…
May 12, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. I want to wish all the women here a very Happy Mother’s Day. I, for one, got a nice card from my dog Lexi and my two cats Katie & Lauren, complete with paw prints (their grandma – my…
April 28, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. By now, most of you know that I love this gospel passage. Thomas is my favorite disciple after Mary Magdalene. Which is why it was inevitable, I suppose, that it would come back to haunt me. Back in May…
April 21, 2019 – Easter Sunday: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Some of you may have seen on our church Facebook page yesterday, an announcement about Easter Sunday. If you didn’t, I will share it with you now: “In the interests of biblical accuracy, all the preaching about…
April 18, 2019 – Maundy Thursday: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Oh what can be found between the lines. Tonight we hear about Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, and giving us a new commandment. In fact, that is where we get the name of this…
April 14, 2019 – Palm Sunday: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Now, as I say every Palm Sunday, we shouldn’t be reading the passion gospel at all today, and well, we actually don’t here at Christ Church, at least not as the gospel reading for the day. …
