December 1, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. There are times while reading the gospel passage for the day when I want to pause and say, in my best Indigo Montoya voice “You just heard those words. I do not think it means what you think it…
November 24, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. As I thought about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, one in which most of this nation will travel far and wide to share a meal with family, the readings from today kept coming to mind. For I think there are…
November 10, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Having celebrated All Saints, and survived the time change back to EST (barely), we are now in Advent. For those who are new here, there is more information on the seven week Advent season in your bulletins (and for…
November 3, 2019 – All Saints Sunday: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. I love the music we sing today – For All the Saints, Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones, Ye holy Angels Bright, and of course, our Communion Hymn, I Sing A Song Of The Saints…
October 20, 2019: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Now, I know it must be really hard to imagine something like what we heard about in the gospel today, right? I mean, come on Jesus, there’s no such thing as a justice system that turns its back on…
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…
