Mark 13:24-37
Happy New Year! The first day of our Christian year. We like January first, don’t we? Because it’s a chance to start over and everybody’s starting over with us. We all follow the same calendar, but in the church sometimes it gets lost…
Matthew 25:31-46
“And those on his right said Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing?”…
Matthew 25:14-30
We have a certain rhythm of going down to the beach in North Carolina. Every morning when it comes time to walk our newly acquired dog, I find myself confronted by numbers of people. At this time of the year you get a lot of surf casters…
Matthew 5:1-12
So it’s All Saints Sunday. We have to celebrate the feast of All Saints on Sunday because we want you all to be here. A lot of us were mentioned in that hymn we just sang. I was glad I was the priest and not the one who was slain by a fierce wild beast…
Matthew 22:34-46
Spiritual journeys begin in very simple ways. Usually they begin by a dawning awareness of some sense of connection that runs deeper than we anticipate. Or they begin again because there is a desire to grow deeper in our life…
Matthew 22:15-22
A couple of months ago the committee that tends to our website wanted to put on the website brief biographies, little bios of the clergy. Each of the clergy were interviewed. One of the questions was, “What is your favorite song?”…
Matthew 22:1-14
They say true love is priceless, but a gorgeous destination wedding in Venice lasting three days with parties and every luxury – not so much. At the end of the day George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin’s three-day wedding cost a total of $1.6 million…
Matthew 21:33-46
How do we use the gifts that have been given to us? That’s really what that parable is about in the gospel reading today. The parable that Matthew has in his gospel is trying to address a community of faith that is changing and shifting…
Exodus 17:1-7, Matthew 21:23-32
Have you ever spent a day with a cranky kid? A whiner? It might have started out OK but maybe they just got up on the wrong side of the bed. Perhaps they are getting ready for school and can’t decide what to wear…
Matthew 20:1-16
“No fair!” What parent hasn’t heard that from their child? And even if you’re not a parent, you’ve heard a child say it, “No fair! Tom invited Susie to his birthday party, and not me. No fair!” “She gets to stay up until nine o’clock and I don’t. No fair!”…