Texts for Preaching: "The Greatest Grandeur" by Pattiann Rogers and Mark 7:24-37 For the video version, scroll to the bottom Jesus escapes. The story begins with an escape. Jesus runs away from … [Read more...]
We See Your Inscape
A video version follows the text As you may know, I just spent a week back in the Midwest – Michigan specifically, and like here, it is green and luscious from all the rain. Traveling through … [Read more...]
Your Giftedness
A Video Version Follows the Text You know, sometimes, (and this is one of them), I am compelled to leave the lectionary behind and branch out on my own. The New Revised Common Lectionary has a … [Read more...]
It’s a dance, a dance I am recommending
I remember reading once, probably a decade ago, that in New York City, during a Black Out, they saw stars. Real stars! It was a big deal because some people there had not seen “real” stars … [Read more...]
Floppy Hats and Other Thoughts
Humans. We are like cicadas, swarming and impossible to ignore. I recently accompanied my wife and daughter to Taughannock Falls where they hiked and I found a place in the woods to sit. Due to … [Read more...]
Never Enough
Text for preaching on 11 Pentecost: John 6:35, 41-51 Video version follows In John’s story about Jesus we hear a harking back to Moses. Whatever we read in the Bible is family history and it … [Read more...]
Our shared congenital disease
Reflection on readings for 10 Pentecost in the Revised Common Lectionary Sermon video follows the text Here is a self-composed American Psalm for the 21st century taken from Psalm 78 that we read … [Read more...]
A parasite that worms its way into our hearts and thoughts
Texts for 9 Pentecost (2 Kings and John) Youtube video follows text Okay, it is the 21st century and we have discovered planet 452b that may be an earth-double. How can we not see stories about … [Read more...]
No Place for a Story
Texts for Preaching Jeremiah 23:1-6; Mark 6:30-34, 53-56; "The Place for No Story" by Robinson Jeffers Video version is available below text I do not usually talk about poets in a sermon, and to … [Read more...]
If I were a prophet…
Reflection on readings for 7 Pentecost (Revised Common Lectionary) YouTube video version follows the text When we have stories that feature John the Baptist like we do today, I repeatedly feel the … [Read more...]
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