January 28, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. So, today St. Paul is talking a LOT about food. Now, I generally like the guy, but considering that something I ate yesterday at lunch while at diocesan convention left me chugging down alka seltzer and lying on…
January 21, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Well, good morning everyone! Yesterday, while working on my sermon, I was enjoying seeing all the Facebook posts by friends and parishioners who marched across our cities in the second round of Women’s Marches. Like last year though,…
January 14, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. This Sunday, we are celebrating the baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, a week later, because we transferred the Feast of the Epiphany to last Sunday, and moved this to today. Why didn’t we just skip over it…
January 7, 2018: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Today we celebrate Epiphany. The feast of the Epiphany is Janurary 6th, so we are celebrating it today. And it is this feast day that ends our Christmastide – our twelve days of Christmas. So, as I said last…
December 31, 2017: There is no text for this sermon as it was done extemporaneously. The audio from the 10:30am service is available by clicking below:
May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. This past month, I have started a children’s service for our Nursery School kids. We have about 30 kids who have been signed up by their parents to attend. Now this past week, I asked them if they had ever seen “A…
December 10, 2017: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. So, you all know I love Star Wars, Star Trek…well, star anything really. I am a certified geeky priest. But, one thing about Star Wars is that it begins in the middle of the story. Then you go forward,…
December 3, 2017: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. The hymn we sang this morning is a favorite of so many, and it is little wonder why. Sure, the music is uplifting, but I think it is the words, which come out of the reading we heard this…
[Our guest preacher is Mr. Jeffrey Stanfill, a chorister in our parish. For a complete bio, see the bottom of this post. Please note, the recording was not turned off after the sermon, so it looks longer than it was. Also, the introduction prior to Jeff’s sermon is not audible. Jeff begins approx. 1min. into the…
November 19, 2017: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. This past Friday, I was a panelist at the 17th Annual American Conference on Diversity Issues in Higher Education. The title of the conference was “Making Meaning of Today’s Cultural Climate.” This title should be enough to given anyone…
