Year A, Lent 5 Ezekiel 37:1-14 Some of you may know that our lectionary rotates on a cycle. That means that our readings repeat every three years. So the readings we...
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Keep Talking: March 12, 2023
Year A, Lent 3 John 4:5-42 Three strikes. The woman in our Gospel reading for today had three strikes against her—three good reasons for Jesus...
Lent Will Break Your Heart: February 22, 2023
Year A Ash Wednesday Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 The reading from the prophet Joel begins, “Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy...
Glory Is All Around: Feb 19, 2023
Year A, Last Sunday of Epiphany Matthew 17:1-9 It’s the last Sunday before Lent begins, the last Sunday for us to sing as many Alleluias as possible and sing them...
Don’t Hide Your Light: Feb. 5 2023
Year A, Epiphany 5 Matthew 5:13-20 “You are the salt of the earth….You are the light of the world.” Notice that Jesus doesn’t say: you can be the salt and you can be light of the earth, if you are super pious,...
Here Comes the Sun: December 25, 2022
John 1:1-18 Christmas Day When I find it particularly difficult to come up with sermon material (which often happens around Christmas), I start googling random questions that come to me while I am studying the...