SERMON TEXT (Scroll to bottom for YouTube Link) From the Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton I in particular. “…Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point … [Read more...]
About Separation, Limitations, and Transformations
TEXT OF SERMON (Scroll to the bottom for the YouTube version) I want to notice the obvious contrast of sheep with goats in Matthew’s emphatically eschatological sermon - by which I mean … [Read more...]
In Between
SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR VIDEO VERSION You might imagine that preaching is as easy as eating an apple fritter with a hot cup of coffee. Sometimes that is true. Other times it is a rassling match - a … [Read more...]
Wisdom
Text of Sermon Followed by Video Version Let us pray. Merciful God, our lives are hunched over as we watch our shoes take one step then another. We are drawn ever forward by the suction of … [Read more...]
Jesus Sat Down
SERMON TEXT (Scroll down for New Video Format) At the end of this sermon, I am going to ask you to light a candle and share in a communal moment of lighting even though we are separated by time … [Read more...]
Being a Storyteller
I am going to tell a story first told in Deuteronomy 34:1-12 and continued in Matthew 22:34-46. In a long forgotten, overgrown unmarked grave on a barren hillside overlooking a landscape of … [Read more...]
Marked
Video & Text Versions Sermon Text What person in your life, or even historical figure, comes to mind when I say, “Marked by God.” We’re in a bit of a quandary in the … [Read more...]
Your Place at the Table
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO FORMAT This is down and dirty. We heard the Gibbon’s read Matthew’s allegorizing of a parable and now I want to give you what may be an earlier version of it. The … [Read more...]
Inheritance of a Wound
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eckhard_Jakob SERMON TEXT (for video scroll down) Welcome to Trinity Place in Geneva, NY. For reference if you care to read them, the texts for today's sermon … [Read more...]
Which No is a Yes? A Yes a No?
Scroll down for link to YouTube version. On a yes day things are what they seem but on a no day the world might swing wrong. That’s not quite how Ralph Burns wrote the verses but it’s … [Read more...]
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