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Sermon – The Third Sunday after Pentecost – June 14, 2026
This sermon reflects on what it means to discover the Holy Invitation that comes so often as the blessing of God when you least expect it and need it most.
Read MoreSermon – The Second Sunday of Advent – December 7, 2025
This sermon finds itself in the midst of Annual Meeting as these words from the Apostle Paul to the Romans echo: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Read MoreSermon – Christ the King Sunday (Last Pentecost -Proper 29) – November 23, 2025
This sermon weaves together elements from the Collect of the Day for Christ the King Sunday, Taizé chant, the reading from Second Thessalonians, the renunciations and affirmations made at Holy Baptism, and the Gospel of Luke as Jesus hangs on the cross flanked by two thieves, and culminates with two prayers that speak to our response as we enter into Advent and once again explore God’s initiative in Jesus Christ.
Read MoreSermon – The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 28) – November 16, 2025
This sermon contemplates how shalom is woven through an image of a rope to guide our understanding of scripture, reason, and tradition especially when it comes to celebrating the Kirkin’ O the Tartan as a mark of koinonia.
Read MoreTHE SPIRITUAL SURPRISE MAKING VETERANS DAY AND MY COMING TRIP TO NORMANDY ALL THE MORE MEANINGFUL
I didn’t realize until just the day before I was to wear my camouflage stole while preaching and leading worship on the Sunday before Veterans Day, that my sermon had a deeper meaning for me.
Read MoreSermon – The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 27) – November 9, 2025
This sermon wonders as we approach Veterans Day how the words the Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians inspire those who find themselves in harm’s way defending what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke of during World War Two as freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fearas I prepare for my own pilgrimage to the beaches of Normandy.
Read MoreSermon – The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24) – October 19, 2025
This sermon is about not losing heart in a world overwhelmed by what the Apostle Paul calls itching ears as we seek to share, with utmost patience, the love we have found in Jesus Christ.
Read MoreSermon – The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 22) – October 5, 2025
This sermon wonders if the words the Apostle Paul shared with Timothy could have been part of the moment the slaver John Newton moved from infidel and libertine to eventually become priest and give us the truth of
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!
Sermon – The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 21) – September 28, 2025
This sermon looks at what values should be placed in your personal compass such as the Cardinal Virtues of fortitude, justice, temperance, and prudence as well as those shunned by the rich man dressed in purple who found, upon being tormented in Hades when the clock ran out upon his death, that root of evil was, indeed, his love of money.
Read MoreSermon – The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 19) – September 14, 2025
This sermon finds commonality with my story and that of the Apostle Paul’s story as he writes that Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making him an example to those who would come to believe in Jesus for eternal life.
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