What a heartfelt invitation from the Book of Revelation: “Come,” come all you thirsty ones, come; take the water of life, take it as a gift. For who is not thirsty for life, and who doesn’t wish for the water of life. But even as we wish for the water of life, we are also looking at our world, listening to the daily news, finding ourselves asking ourselves, “What are we coming to, what in the world are we as a human race coming to?”
Read MoreA special sermon given during the Installation of Rev. Jennie Anderson at St. Barnabas.
Read MoreHow do we continue to describe the miracle of the resurrection? How do we describe being called by name out of death into life? A way we can describe the gift of the resurrection is to understand how we relate to God and how we carry that relationship into our day by day lives, give that gift of relationship to others.
Read MoreSaul, the persecutor, Saul, the pharisee, this very Saul is on the verge to becoming Paul the believer, Paul the apostle, Paul the founder of churches throughout the Roman world. And all this stemming from a momentous event on the road to Damascus, where Paul discovers that the one he is destined to be is not the one he thought he was destined to be.
Read MoreWhat was really going on in Thomas’ mind and heart? What goes on in our own minds when we hear the fantastic and unreal? We first think the story teller is maybe a little off, or a little bit stressed to the point of being a little touched in the head.
Read MoreThis morning I want to talk about the suspending our disbelief for a little while. Really, to be a Christian is a gutsy thing. I mean, basically, we claim that there was this amazing person who walked on this earth, was born in a very special way and lived like you and me…
Read MoreYou might not believe it, but even if you don’t believe it, the story of Jesus is one filled with hope that is as strong as a single flickering candle being blown in a bit of a breeze but stays lit. This evening in our rituals, we enact this light of life coming into the world.
Read MoreMaundy Thursday… This was the last meal Jesus would share with his beloved disciples. He was grateful yet he was so afraid. He asked for his brothers to watch with him for one hour tonight. Will you watch with him this night?
Read MoreSo, was Judas right? Would it not have been truer to the spirit of Christ to sell the pound of perfume for three hundred denarii --- a lot of money in those days --- and distribute the money to the poor? Yet Jesus puts Judas down, telling him, “Leave her alone.” And what are we to make of how Jesus’ justifies Mary’s, perhaps impetuous, act: “You always have the poor with you,” Jesus says, “but you do not always have me.” Not exactly a response in keeping with Jesus’ spirit of humility. A little uncharacteristic.
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