Things We Can’t Do Without

February 28, 2013
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…

No Nonessential People

January 27, 2013
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…

The Problem With Prophecy

January 25, 2013
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…

Living Wet

January 13, 2013
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…

Expecting the Unexpected

December 25, 2012
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…

Mary’s Song

December 25, 2012
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…