This Thursday the General Convention of the Episcopal Church begins. I would like to talk about the General Convention that’s coming up. Over the years I’ve been here at St. Paul’s this is the fifth General Convention that’s happened and I’ve been told that giving a preview has been helpful…
God is such a patient God who relates to us, such an impatient humanity. I want to share a couple of thoughts on that this morning. As you know, on Sundays we read from scripture. These readings are not readings that clergy get together with and pick out, “Let’s have these readings this Sunday…”
I want to share a story with you of the abbot of a monastery, a Trappist monastery called the Monastery of the Holy Spirit. The monk there, the abbot of the monastery was asked about the meaning and significance of the monastic life in the monastery…
We’ve heard the story of the women going to the tomb of Jesus. They were going there to perform a Jewish ritual. But when they went to the tomb, what they experienced was quite different from what they expected…
On Palm Sunday the liturgy itself has such a power to it that as a homilist who’s sharing a homily this morning I feel a need to almost get out of the way of the liturgy and let it tell it’s story…
A couple of weeks ago I spent some time with our Communion class. There are 27 children this year. In my class we focused on what we do when we get together for the Eucharist…
There is a New Yorker Magazine cartoon that had two people talking to each other, and one person is saying to the other, “Well, enough about me. Let’s talk about you. So what do you think about me?” I feel a little bit like that today in that I would like to talk a little bit about me. Not that I’m preaching me, but to talk a little about what I’ve been experiencing this past week and talk to you about that this morning…
Mark 1:29-39
“After they left the synagogue.” That’s how our Gospel reading begins today. Jesus and his disciples had left the synagogue, and then unfolds this story that we just read from the Gospel reading this morning. When you think about it, a lot of what we read about in the Gospels about Jesus is about his ministry outside the synagogue…
Today is the day of our annual meeting which we had from ten to eleven o’clock between our services. So today is a little bit different in my preaching. Instead of what you would normally look at as preaching or a homily, I want to talk about our parish and where we find ourselves, and give thanks to you for all you do to make St. Paul’s who it is and what it is…
There was a youth minister who was invited to speak at a youth conference a few years back. At this youth conference were people from upper high school to college age. They were from different denominations from all parts of the country gathered together for this conference. Among many of the presentations this young youth minister was invited to give a talk…