“You don’t want a savior that doesn’t know anything about sin and evil and death. You don’t want a savior who hasn’t experienced fear and pain and suffering …Thomas understood that what made Jesus the savior, the Paschal lamb, was that He had been through all those things, and he was not wiling to believe [...]
Read full post...“The words of the Exultet mean exactly what they say. This is the night when we have passed over from death to life, and bondage to sin has been broken. This is the night that the past and the present and the future have come together and there is no time. It’s not a metaphor. [...]
Read full post...Fr. John preaches on Matthew 4:1-11.
“We are all tempted. We all have knowledge of evil, and so Jesus is presented with the possibilities that the dark side suggests to all of us.”
God doesn’t want to punish or frighten us. He is not the God you hear about from our culture and our media, the God that wants to tell you how bad you are. And so He comes to us as a baby, and His power and presence is in the bread and wine that we [...]
Read full post...“If Mary Magdalene would say anything to us, she would look at our attempts to masquerade as good people and say, ‘Stop.’”
Read full post...The next-to-the-last sentence in today’s epistle reading is the sentence that I have put my hope and spiritual life in for the last thirty-eight years. It’s one of the, if not the most, important passages in the whole of the New Testament.
[Paul] says, this is what He has done, this is what God has done: [...]
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“You all are in situations every week - more than I am, I’m sure - where there’s this thing that goes off inside of you: ‘I ought to say something here. I know a truth I ought to talk about. I ought to say it, but…I probably won’t [...]
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Who do you say that Jesus is? Who does the Episcopal Church say that Jesus is, in its Book of Common Prayer? How does what we believe and say about Jesus affect our spiritual lives and experiences?
Note: This past Sunday’s sermon on the “hard sayings” of Jesus won’t [...]
On “sensual Sunday” we hear two contrasting stories of how religious people deal with sin and sinners: Nathan’s confrontation with King David, and Jesus’ dinner with Simon the Pharisee where the woman who was a “notorious sinner” was saved through her love.
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“Religion is about bringing people home. Christianity [...]
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The Feast of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
“Here we are celebrating the Real Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ in the bread and wine of the Eucharist.
“You know, I could take a sample of this congregation and probably 85 percent of the people in [...]
