Trinity Sunday is one of the few Sundays of the year where a preacher might be forgiven for preaching a heavy, doctrinal sermon. Believe it or not, there is something rather attractive about really digging in and laying out a good 45 minutes of careful reasoning and exposition. The problem is that, no matter how…
Well today (and by “today” I mean the day I preached the sermons below) is the birthday of the church: Pentecost. It seems strange that we have such an unequivocal beginning. The strange thing is that the direction I took with the Lectionary texts was to address an old, old fight that isn’t even on…
Ah Mother’s Day. I give ground to no one in my appreciation for my own mother, mother-in-law and step-mother to say nothing of the mother of my children! I love them all. I am amazed at how capable, creative and wonderful they are. I wish them, and all mothers, nothing but the best on this…