Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 A teacher once told me that until you can explain something to a child, you don’t really understand it. CS Lewis, another great teacher, believed most ardently that good children’s stories were only good if they could mean just as much to the adults reading them as the child being read to.Continue reading “Will We Join the Party?”
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Temptation at Lunchtime
Luke 4:1-13 In C. S. Lewis’s book The Screwtape Letters, Lewis imagines what the correspondence between two demons might look like. They discuss humanity with contempt, all the while obsessing over the actions, choices, and beliefs of the individual humans they are charged with leading away from God, or as they call him, the Enemy.Continue reading “Temptation at Lunchtime”
Memento Mori
This sermon was given on the occasion of Ash Wednesday 2025, and primarily addresses the liturgy of the day as well as several references to the Burial Office, both of which can be found in the Book of Common Prayer! The t-shirt mentioned is a discontinued product of The Little Rose Shop, but a similarContinue reading “Memento Mori”
Look the Serpent in the Eye
Numbers 21:4-9 After forty years in the desert, the people of God are tired, downtrodden, and impatient. They have just recently learned that the older generation will not live to see the promised land- all those who were adults when Moses led them out of Egypt, including Moses himself, will die before crossing the JordanContinue reading “Look the Serpent in the Eye”
Every Body Holy
John 2:13-22 When I asked what struck our Lenten study group the most about this passage when they read it last week, one of the responses was the sheer size and magnificence of the Temple. We Christians sometimes conflate our own ideas of churches and cathedrals with the Temple of Ancient Jerusalem. But the scaleContinue reading “Every Body Holy”
Setting Our Minds on Him
Mark 8:31-38 There has been a lot of buzz both online and in conversations all over the country about a certain Super Bowl ad. For two years now, something called the He Gets Us campaign has been purchasing and running advertisements during prime-time sporting events. The ads have a high production value, and cost millionsContinue reading “Setting Our Minds on Him”
An Unarmed God
Genesis 9:8-17 It has always fascinated me that the story of Noah and the Ark is such a fixture in children’s toys and books and Sunday School lessons. There are at least four Noah’s Ark ornaments on our tree every year from Ben’s childhood, and I have served in multiple churches with the scenes ofContinue reading “An Unarmed God”
Can These Bones Live?
Ezekiel 37:1-14 & John 11:1-45 Mortal, can these bones live? O Lord God, you know. The hand of the Lord brought the prophet Ezekiel into the valley of the shadow of death. The valley full of bones, dry and still and long dead, a sight which makes our haunted houses and metaphorical closets look likeContinue reading “Can These Bones Live?”
Healing, Not Curing.
John 9:1-41 I am deeply indebted in this sermon and in my reading of the healing ministry of Jesus to Amy Kenny, author of My Body is Not a Prayer Request. If you only purchase or check out one book this year, I hope you’ll try Amy Kenny’s. I am also indebted always to TheContinue reading “Healing, Not Curing.”
The Unnamed Evangelist
John 4:5-42 Last Sunday we heard a story of a man who came to Jesus in the dark of night, a seeker who was not yet ready to risk aligning himself publicly with Jesus’s controversial ministry. Jesus met him where he was, there in the dark and the early moments of conversion, walking with himContinue reading “The Unnamed Evangelist”
Mother A Writes 