“If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. If you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your … [Read more...]
Remember When They Got Mad at You?
Somewhere in the recesses of your life burrows the memory of a time when you angered your family. I do not know what you did, of course, but I am pretty sure whatever it was, they got doggone … [Read more...]
A Moment that Changed the History of the World
I preached on Nehemiah and Luke three years ago – the last time they surfaced for air. That was the Sunday I gave the now apocryphal sermon in which I said I could be a midwife for Trinity, or a … [Read more...]
In Search of the “Golden Number”
As I sat down to write this sermon, I wondered if there would be anyone to hear it given the dire predictions of a winter storm. But then I remembered there is a grand internet congregation … [Read more...]
Foxy’s Not Alone
I am going to do two things I normally do not do in a sermon. The first is to read an extended bit of prose, and the second is to “proclaim.” I know preachers are supposed to proclaim, but I … [Read more...]
How to Win Back Your Heart (Not for the Faint of Heart)
There is an experience in seminary I want to slice open and so share its fruit with you. But I doubt I can do it justice. It has to do with the Bible – with entering into the text for the first … [Read more...]
A Definite Maybe
This sermon should be entitled, “What’s wrong with maybe?” “You wouldn’t believe what once or twice I have seen,” Mary Oliver writes, and she tells us the world is wider than the “rigid house … [Read more...]
Christmas Eve 2018: Gulping Milk and Knowing Presence
Merry Christmas. This may not seem like a Christmas sermon at first, but wait for it. When we were small the world was liquid and grown-ups poured it into us, sometimes in small … [Read more...]
Bite into Hope
Oh, Anne Sexton, I do love you so: “…The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. There is hope. There is hope everywhere. I bite it… There is hope…Today God gives … [Read more...]
It’s A Wonder
You hold a baby in your arms and rock her or him, and their fat little face looks up into yours. You look into that sweet face…and wonder. You wonder. You wonder about what she will be when … [Read more...]
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