Luke 7:36-8:3
I want to share some thoughts with you, particularly on that Gospel reading we just heard. The Gospel reading really spoke to me this past week. If I can do some name dropping: yesterday was the ordination of Ann Hodges-Copple as our new Bishop Suffragan, and our Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts-Schori was the principal consecrator…
Galatians 1:11-24
I want to share a story with you this morning and when I’m finished I will tell you who the author is. There is a book names Mr. Peabody’s Apples. In this story all the good people of Happyville live a fine existence. Sort of like Andy Griffith’s Mayberry…
Good morning to you all. I’m delighted to be here again to celebrate Confirmation and the Eucharist and to be with you on this morning to do this visitation. We have a goodly group of people. There are a whole row of books lined up for me to sign certificates on…
Right before I started Virginia Theological Seminary I was visiting a church in the DC area that will remain unnamed on a Trinity Sunday. Those of you who have heard me preach on special days before have probably noticed that I get a little nerdy around liturgical holidays…
One day, long, long, ago, God was looking down upon the Earth, watching the men and women he created and he saw they had become extremely wicked. There were robbers, murderers, cheats, liars, selfish, and in general not very nice folks. The holy God saw that every thought of man’s heart was continually evil…
John 17:20-26
Happy Easter! You do know it’s still Easter, right? We’re actually in our seventh and final week, but it’s still Easter time. Next week we will celebrate the Feast of Pentecost. The birthday of the church and the celebration of the Holy Spirit coming in among our midst…
Acts 16:9-15
It’s the end of the semester for a lot of our college students. My oldest daughter Elizabeth is going to be graduating this Friday from UNC Greensboro with her master’s in music education, and then on a couple of days later with her husband Danny to Connecticut where they will be living…
Acts 11:1-18
As long as I have been here at St. Paul’s Church, about 30 years I think, I have had the distinction of being the only member of the clergy staff with a southern accent. It isn’t quite as pronounced as it was years ago when I was growing up in Piedmont, North Carolina…
Acts 9:36-43
The Acts of the Apostles. We’re going to hear quite a bit from that book during the season of Easter. It’s a book that is read, traditionally during Easter because it talks about those early acts and the lives of those followers of Jesus immediately after the resurrection…
Acts 9:1-20, John 21:1-19
As the rise, celebration, and now relaxation after Holy Week and Easter has come and gone, we in the church are left with this Easter question. What do we do now? What are we to do with this crucified, resurrected Lord? How have our lives been changed by that resurrection? …