Sermons
March 18, 2018 5th Sunday in Lent, B In the beginning of John’s Gospel we learn, “The Word became flesh and lived among us.” John is telling us that Jesus was the personification of God’s activity, God’s …
March 11, 2018 Fourth Lent, B I grew up thinking that grace was the prayer said before meals—a blessing on our food. Grace IS a blessing, and so much more than a prayer over our food. Grace …
March 4, 2018 Third Lent, B Do you know why there are 10 commandments? We have 10 fingers. Memory tools. Well, that could be why. If we were sloths, there might be 6 commandments instead. Do you …
February 25, 2018 2nd Sunday in Lent, B St. George’s, Lee, had a magnificent stained glass window of the ascension over the altar. When a gifted carpenter parishioner offered to make a hanging cross for the chancel, …
February 4, 2018 5th Sunday after Epiphany, B “Set us free, O God, from the bondage of our sins, and give us the liberty of that abundant life which you have made known to us in your Son …
January 28, 2018 Epiphany 4, B Interesting readings today, aren’t they? As I read them over this week, and as I heard them this morning, I wondered how they would sound to you—what you might make of them. …
January 21, 2018 3rd after Epiphany, B “Jesus calls us, o’er the tumult of our life’s wild restless sea…” (from Hymn 550) What kind of calls have you received? When I was a child the only …
2 Epiphany B January 13/14, 2018 Richard Dawkins, English scientist and atheist, has written, “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving …
1 Epiphany, B January 7, 2018 Well, here we are in a new season! It might be called “arctic” but it’s really Epiphany. Christmas is over. Time to take down trees and other decorations and put them …
Christmas Day 2017 Santa had an accident. Christmas is cancelled! That was a joke posted on Facebook the other day. It made me sad because I know lots of folks for whom Christmas is ONLY …
