Text: Ps. 27:14: “Though my father and my mother forsake me, the Lord will sustain me.” Maybe by now in your own observance of Lent this year you have decided to slightly…
Text: Luke 9:32: “Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep; but since they had stayed awake, they saw his glory...” For a long time, the peculiar tradition…
A sermon for the Annual Meeting of the Parish Text: 1 Corinthians 12:14: “Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.” When I was little and growing…
Text: I Corinthians 12:3b: “...no one can say ‘Jesus Christ is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit.” Let me just start with the conundrum in order to get it out of the…
Text: Luke 3:21: “Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened...” Not long ago in the New…
Text: Luke 2:7: “And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for…
We come to Saint John’s on this last Sunday of Advent,the season of expectation, of examination,of introspection and of welcome. I love the Advent collects, the prayers that we say…