Holy Triune God, Open our eyes to your holy presence. Open our ears to your holy call. Open our hearts to your holy love.[1] Jesus looked...

How many of you know that there are TWO creation stories in Genesis? Go ahead... raise your hands. Clergy, you don’t get a vote! I know...

Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? In order to not lose the saltiness of my sermon, let me begin...

Children of God! Do you think of yourselves as that? What does our being followers of Jesus, followers of the cross mean to you? That is...

Back in 1997, the year I graduated from college, I began dating a girl that I really liked who had just recently become a born-again...

How many parents in the congregation this morning understand the power of spit? I know that mothers do! A little bit of spit on a...

In the Collect for Purity, as we open the service this morning, we refer to how our hearts are open to God. In our Epistle from James, we...

You will be glad to know that this is the last Sunday that we get to hear the bread of life discourse from the Gospel of John. Jesus...

When I was a budding adolescent growing up in the 90s, a man by the name of Matt Groening introduced the world to the first American...

One of the things I noticed when I was visiting in Israel three years ago was that cities, and temples, and fortresses were built on top...

Who would’ve thought three and a half years ago when our family walked through those red doors that our journey would lead us through...

It is good to be back! As you may know Kim and I just returned from watching our Grandkids for a week while their parents where on a...

Walls of hostility are built between groups and there seems to be no way around them. But walls do come down, The Berlin Wall went up in...

Our collect for this morning reads, …and grant that they may know and understand what things they ough t to do, and also may have grace...

For the last few weeks, my friends have put up with my peppering our conversations with one liners from Tea Leoni, the star of the...

Last week our Gospel from Mark told us the story of Jesus and the disciples crossing to the other side of the Sea of Galilee – into...

Have you ever been on a boat? In storm and been afraid? My parents were missionaries and when we moved to Brazil South America, we went...

My son Walker is a timber framer. What that means is that he takes huge pieces of whole wood timbers and makes cuts and joints often with...

May I speak to you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Good morning! What do y’all think of my giraffe hat? It's...

May only the word of God be spoken, may only the word of God be heard, in the name of the Triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy...