Happy Trinity Sunday! Before we continue, let’s take a moment and step out of our places of comfort, our place of regular pattern and stand up. I will ask two volunteers to step out of their seats and come to the front of the church. It is a simple illustration and no one is going to be hypnotized into clucking like a chicken or mooing like a cow…
Read MoreWhy is the door to Episcopal Churches almost always red? Well… the Holy Spirit lives there! Why is the hat or miter of the bishop pointy and a bit strange? It too represents the flame of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is water, fire and smoke… those mysterious and uncontainable “forces of nature.” Holy Spirit is always mystery!
Read MoreWhat 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.
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