November 4, 2018 – All Saints Sunday: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. I just love that phrase from our collect of the day today: “ineffable joys.” Ineffable, which means “too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.” Well, I don’t know about you, but I…
October 28, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. There is so much going on in our gospel story today that it would take many hours to unpack it all; but don’t worry, I will not be trying to go back to my Baptist roots and go beyond…
October 21, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. What a joyous celebration we experienced last night at our anniversary evensong. Our bishop, the Rt. Rev. Carlye J. Hughes, along with priests who had served this parish, other clergy of the diocese, and leaders of our towns of…
October 7, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Lordy, one commentator was right when he remarked about the scripture passages assigned for today – “Beware!,” he said. Indeed, beware – and be A-ware. If there is ever a time for a preacher not to allow a lesson…
September 30, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. This has been a week of Tsunamis – real and proverbial. We are rocked by the horrific news of hundreds of Indonesian people dead from the tsunami waves resulting from a 7.5 earthquake. And by we were emotionally swallowed up…
September 23, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Yesterday, those of us who were able to be at the consecration of our new bishop, now rightfully known to us as the Rt. Rev. Carlye J. Hughes, bore witness to an amazing moment for our church, and particularly…
[Our guest preacher was our Dir. of Music, William Davies. For more information about him, click here: Music. The audio (available below) includes an opening of the sermon not included in the text. It also is much longer than the sermon actually was, as it was left on through the end of the service, so you…
September 9, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. I love this gospel reading (or its parallel in the Gospel of Matthew). What I don’t love is what we sometimes do with it. Now, when I hear it today, I am reminded of that glaring moment in February…
September 2, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Unless you have been living under a rock this past week, you bore witness to a nation grieving the loss of two icons – one is the Queen of Soul, the other a hero of our nation. The funerals…
August 26, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. A few years ago, my refrigerator decided it was time to retire to the old fridge home in the sky. So, I went looking for a new one, and was I ever in for a surprise. First of all, everything…
