November 26, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Well, welcome to the post-stuffing-our-face-not-gonna-get-on-a-scale-for-weeks season. I pray you all enjoyed Thanksgiving, and no, we didn’t turn off the heat so you could burn more calories sitting in the pews – but hey, that is the bright side I suppose of…
November 19, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. This past Thursday, several of you joined me at the community interfaith Thanksgiving service at Temple Ner Tamid. The service, attended by Jews, Muslims, and Christians, featured songs led by Cantor Meredith Greenberg, as well as prayers and reflections from local…
October 29, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Bible trivia question: How did scholars figure out that maybe, just maybe, the tradition that Moses wrote the first five books of the bible, the Jewish Torah, might not be accurate? Answer: The passage from Deuteronomy we heard today, for a…
October 15, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. I don’t know if any of you have read the entire bible, but if you haven’t, you can always use this Cliff Notes version. I needed some help, so I asked our fabulous choir to play along here. I’ll play the…
October 1, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Well, happy 165th birthday Christ Church! Today is our Fall Founder’s Fest Sunday, which we will celebrate in the parish hall following the service. We hold this on the first Sunday in October, because we were founded on October 4th 1858. …
September 24, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Every time this passage from Exodus comes up, I just want to sing “It’s raining quail! Hallelujah!” Never mind. So, maybe let’s focus on the gospel instead, which is one that can often challenge our notion of what is just, what…
September 10, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. This is a season of change – in the weather of course – I mean what is up with this late summer thunderstorm surge? Change in our daily lives – a new school year for the kids, a return from summer…
August 6, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Well, if you are a lectionary nerd, the lections being what we read on Sunday, you might notice that this isn’t the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost. It would be, but August 6th is the Feast of the Transfiguration, and as it…
July 16, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Today’s gospel is one that I am sure most of you have heard before. Jesus tells the people about a sower who scatters seed that fell everywhere – on rocky ground, in weedy places, and in some good soil too. When…
July 2, 2023: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Every time this text from Genesis read this morning comes around in our lectionary, I remember a seminary professor who once advised that anyone contemplating preaching on that text might want to think again. “After all,” he said, “there are three…
