Sermon for Easter Sunday, Year A, April 12, 2020
A few of us, this past week, took pictures of the set-up for broadcasting our services over the internet. Comments were made about this being a time in history …
Sermon for Palm Sunday, Year A, March 5, 2020
Palm Sunday has always been, for me, a reminder of just how quickly things can change from joyous to nearly unbearable. Jesus enters into Jerusalem like a king with his …
Sermon for March 29, 2020 Lent 5, Year A
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Psalm 130 Romans 8:6-11 John 11:1-45 Over these past two weeks I have learned a great deal about how to be with others without being physically present. …
Sermon for Lent 2, Year A, March 8, 2020
Genesis 12:1-4a Psalm 121 Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 John 3:1-17 One day in my Old Testament class, our professor, James Sanders, said that whenever the people of Israel defined God …
Sermon for Lent 1, Year A, March 1, 2020
Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 Psalm 32 Romans 5:12-19 Matthew 4:1-11 The temptations of Christ in today’s gospel may be presented as magical – but they are temptations that many of …
Sermon for Epiphany 5, Year A, February 9, 2020
Isaiah 58:109, Psalm 112: 1-10, 1 Corinthians 2:1-16, Matthew 5:13-20 Paul writes, “I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom.” Clearly, …
Sermon for the Presentation of Our Lord, February 2, 2020, Epiphany 4
This Sunday we celebrate the presentation of Jesus at the temple. The presentation of a first-born son at the temple was an important ritual in the Jewish tradition. In …
Sermon for Epiphany 3, Year A, January 26, 2020
Isaiah 9:1-4, Psalm 27: 1, 5-13, 1 Corinthians 1:10-18, Matthew 4:12-23 After preparing the Annual Reports for today’s meeting, we began preparing the Parochial Report which must be submitted …
Sermon for Epiphany 2, Year A, January 19, 2020
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day The book of Isaiah spans more than a life-time. Isaiah begins before the fall of Israel and concludes after the people have returned and begun …
Sermon for the Baptism of our Lord, Epiphany 1, Year A, January 12, 2020
Isaiah 42:1-9, Psalm 29, Acts 10:34-43, Matthew 3:13-17 Today is the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord. Our lesson from Matthew takes us to Jesus with John at …