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Labyrinth #112: The Challenge of Spiritual Heroes
For at least twenty years, I have enjoyed walking labyrinths. Labyrinths are maze-like structures that have been used as spiritual tools for centuries. For the past seven years, I’ve been walking labyrinths throughout the northeastern United States, and blogging about them. To learn more about labyrinths, check out this page at the Labyrinth Society. To…
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The Rich Images of God: A Dive into the Trinity (Sermon)
This sermon reflects on the Gospel of John 16:12-15, emphasizing the mystery of the Trinity and God’s multifaceted nature. Jesus, aware of his imminent departure, acknowledges the disciples’ limitations in understanding divine truth. The sermon explores various vivid images of God, ultimately highlighting that the essence of God lies in relationship and trust.
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Renewed in the Belly of the Whale (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany. The text I had in mind while preparing it was the Second Reading, 1 Corinthians 2:1-12. It was the final Sunday of our annual Stewardship Campaign. If you’d like to see a video of this sermon, click here.…
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Consider Your Own Call (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. The reading I preached on was 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. I also referred to Micah 6:1-8 and Matthew 5:1-12. Consider your own call, brothers and sisters! In our second reading today, Paul writes to the church at Corinth, “Consider…
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Well of Mercy
So I spent a lot of the past month traveling around, and a lot of it exploring water. I traveled back to the town of my earliest days, a town that really feels like prehistory to me, since the only memories I have of it are vague and unformed. There, I sat by the West…
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On Loneliness (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, the Sixth Sunday of Easter. The gospel text was John 14:23-29. There’s a story sometimes told among Buddhists. It goes something like this. During the time of the Buddha, there lived a woman named Kisa Gotami. She got married, and gave birth to…
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The Watery Theophany
An image in words based on Matthew 3:13-17 Soon. So soon it comes. So soon silently a torrent rips across the sky. A wrenching rending thunderstorm cataclysm in reverse. Silently. So silently. The waters bubble and shimmer, hydrogen and oxygen quivering in homage to the one whose cells and humors descend into the darkwater abyss.…
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Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached today, the Day of Pentecost. Pentecost is the festival celebrating the coming of the Holy Spirit. Instead of preaching directly on one of the readings, as I usually do, I focused on a song that we sang multiple times this morning in worship, the ancient…
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You Have Spiritual Gifts (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning, the Third Sunday after Epiphany. The text I preached on was 1 Corinthians 12:1-12. It’s the second week (should have been the third, but ice happened last weekend) of our Stewardship Campaign. Ruth Bader Ginsburg enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1956. She…
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How Can You Give Your Time to God? (Sermon)
This is an adapted form of the sermon I preached this morning. The text I preached on was the Second Reading, Acts 8:14-17. This was the first in a four-week Stewardship Program. Today’s theme was “Giving our Time to God Changes Everything.” When word reached the apostles in Jerusalem that Samaria had accepted God’s word,…
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