Sermons

Water, a poem for Easter Vigil

Genesis Water. The hands of the hand of God. The conductor waves his hands And the hands of the hand make music.   God slept in the deep and God woke. She opened her eyes to let there be light.... [ Read More ]
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Good Friday April 6, 2012

  Two nights ago, among the readings at the Tenebrae service, Was an excerpt from a book by Desmond Tutu and his daughter Mpho. In it, they describe how, by human standards, Jesus’ death was a huge failure. He cared... [ Read More ]
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Palm Sunday, April, 1, 2012

  When family come together, they often tell stories. Stories delight.  They connect the past to the present. They fill children with the hopes for what will live into the future. When I was a boy, besides the stories around... [ Read More ]
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Lent 5, March 25, 2012

  Some Greeks wanted to see Jesus.  They wanted to see Jesus. They wanted to know Jesus. In Greek to see and to know are forms of the same word. In the Greek mind to see is to know, and... [ Read More ]
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Lent 4 March 18, 2012

For many of us the wilderness is a place we love to go. We find the wilderness a delicious, inviting place full of wonder, full of God. We not only see beautiful landscapes and wildlife there, But we feel and... [ Read More ]
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Lent 2 March 4, 2012

  The story has been told that: There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, “Master, just now when... [ Read More ]
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Lent 1 February 26, 2012

  Each season in the church is an invitation to know the God of all our days. Lent is a season of contrasts. Satan and angels; baptism and desert; 40 days of rain, 40 of emptying; The Spirit says “You... [ Read More ]
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Epiphany 6 Sunday February 12, 2012

  Sing to the Lord, you servants of his. +   What Naaman needed was some backup singers.  There he was out on the stage in the spotlight.  He had his horses and his chariots.  He had his soldiers and... [ Read More ]
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Epiphany 5 February 5, 2012

The Lord heals the broken hearted, and binds up their wounds. + Mark’s gospel throttles along on an edgy tension. It is populated by hucksters and lepers, demons and the possessed. While his friends and admirers dotter along behind slow... [ Read More ]
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