Texts for Preaching: Mark 4:26-34 What to remember when waking by David Whyte The YouTube version follows the text Side-by-side in today’s reading from Mark, are two parables. I’m going down … [Read more...]
The Paradox: It is from the inside out
Texts for Preaching: “Courage” by Anne Sexton and Mark 3:2--35 Scroll to the end for the link to a YouTube video of this sermon This may seem like a strange sermon to preach to a bunch of old … [Read more...]
A Fool’s Errand
Texts: ”Change” by Ellen Bass and John 3:1-17\ Video version follows text If you are a liturgical church sort, you know this is “Trinity Sunday” -- the week after Pentecost earmarked to celebrate … [Read more...]
Listening from the floor of history not the box seats
Texts for Preaching: Ezekiel 37:1-14 For video format scroll to the bottom Since it is Pentecost I am going to preach my core theology -- my bedrock. You have heard it before, one way or … [Read more...]
In this world and of it
Texts for Preaching: “Breakage” by Mary Oliver John 17:6-19 Scroll down for sermon video Don’t you love how descriptive that Mary Oliver poem is? She takes us right to that place on the … [Read more...]
The Kitchen Table (More Like What Joy Harjo Sees)
Sermon Texts: John 15:9-17 (https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu//texts.php?id=91) and "Perhaps the World Ends Here" by Joy Harjo … [Read more...]
“From Blossoms” to bread and wine – an Easter season reflection
Sermon Text: “From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43012/from-blossoms A video version of this sermon follows the text From blossoms - those wafer-thin pedals of … [Read more...]
Seeing the Earth from the Moon
A video version of this text follows below As you may know, if you have heard me before, I like to dig around in the context of the gospel to see if it offers us a good perspective from which … [Read more...]
To cry over a single blade of grass
For a video version scroll to the bottom of the following text Texts: Luke 24:36-48 and "What the Living Do" by Marie Howe In that poem we heard, Marie Howe is talking to her deceased brother, … [Read more...]
Small Wire
For video version, scroll to bottom Sermon Texts: John 20:19-31 and... Small Wire by Anne Sexton My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin … [Read more...]
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