(There is no recording available for this sermon.) Text: 1 Corinthians 9:22b: “I have become all things to all people, so that I might by any means save some.” We…
Text: Mark 1:18: “And immediately they left their nets and followed him.” The theme today is decisiveness. Easy to read about, not so easy, maybe, to emulate. The people of…
Report of the Rector for 2014 It is possible to sum up the report below in seven words: I am the rector of Saint John’s. This is the sixth time…
[No audio is available for this sermon.] Text: Jeremiah 31:13: “I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.” Things come a little out…
Today’s readings were the very first stories I ever heard in church. When I was very young, my father decided to reengage with his faith by accompanying my grandmother to…
We recall this morning the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. It’s a story we know; you’ve probably seen it in a hundred images. There is always John, wearing a…
Text: Titus 2:14: “He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are…
Text: Mark 1:5: “And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan,…
Text: Isaiah 64:1: “O that you would tear open the heavens and come down…” I never took the marshmallow test. I’m pretty sure, if I had taken it, I would have failed.…
The lessons for this day may be found at this link. “Dear Admissions Office, I am a senior at <fill in the high school>. When I was a junior, my…
