Fasting and Lent

Sermon | February 5, 2023

Lent begins in a little over two weeks. When one hears the word “Lent”, one often associates it with “fasting.” Perhaps you are thinking, as I have in the past, that you’ll give up alcohol, or chocolate, or your daily triple venti mocha with whipped cream for 40 days…and you’re done. But in today’s lesson

Only God Can Save the World

Sermon | March 27, 2022

Let me be a little Lenten apocalyptic today; I say with a smile…. Because I love you. Our guide in the Holy Land, Iyad, always said that to us… “Remember, I love you,” and then he’d take us up a hill or something. Love is the theme of the sermon, incidentally. We’ll get to that

Adult Formation in Lent

News | March 9, 2022

March 13, 20, 27, & April 3, 10 | Great Hall & Zoom Lent is a season when Christians traditionally choose a spiritual discipline to practice, which we hope will draw us closer to God. We often think of this as a time of deprivation and sacrifice, but experimenting with spiritual disciplines can be

Our Ancestor was a Wandering Foreigner

Sermon | March 6, 2022

“Arami Oved Avi” (Ah-RAM-ee Oh-VED Ah-VEE) or, as we heard it in the reading from Deuteronomy, “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor.” Today’s Old Testament lesson contains a phrase we might be tempted to skip over. After all, it sounds a lot like one of those “begat” sections of the Bible, and in any case,

Instruments of Peace

Sermon | March 2, 2022

Here we are at Ash Wednesday. The beginning of Lent. In just a moment, we will hear an Invitation to a Holy Lent, an invitation to self-examination and repentance by prayer and fasting and self-denial, and by reading and meditating on God’s Holy Word. I don’t know about you, but I am much in need

This Lent: Epiphany’s Catechumenate

News | February 19, 2022

Adult Baptism and Confirmation Class March 2 | 6:00 – 7:15 pm March 13, 20, 27 & April 4, 10 | 4:00 – 5:15 pm Christie House Library As Lent approaches, I want to invite you to consider being part of the catechumenate. It is a word for the ancient time of Christian instruction

Stilling Storms

Sermon | July 11, 2021

I’m very excited for the opportunity Doyt has given me to bring the word this morning. Last week sitting out there in the pew was my first time at a worship service in person since Ash Wednesday of last year. For all of us this has been the longest Lent ever and while every Sunday

Hallelujah!

Sermon | April 3, 2021

As we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ tonight, the word that marks this moment is hallelujah. It means praise God, which is sort of odd to say praise God as a way of praising God. The truth is hallelujah is a rather untranslatable word: it is more a guttural affirmation; a mysterious proclamation; a

Homily for the Feast of the Annunciation

News | March 25, 2021

Society teaches us to set our sights on a goal and to organize life around the achievement of that goal, in the same way that you might choose a point on a map and then plan a route to arrive there. What happens if we take away the goal, and put down the map, and

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