Life is Impossible Session 6: It’s Impossible to Save Yourself
The Strength and Courage to Love and Serve the Lord
Weekend Review 6.2.19: Church Decline, Ex-Pro Lifers, and #pride2019
Life is Impossible Session 5: Impossible to Difficult
Weekend Review 5.26.19: Uncivil Discourse, Mayor Pete’s Church, and A Culture of Life
Life is Impossible Session 4: Impossible Made Possible
Weekend Review 5.19.19: Untrained Pastors, the sufficiency of scripture, Alabama, and Israel Fallau
Life is Impossible Session 3: Law and Gospel
Weekend Review: “Christian” violence, #RHE, and the future of regressive Christianity
Weekend Review: Justification by faith and the irrelevance of Liberal Protestantism
Forgiveness has Risen from the Grave
Men and the Church: a 21st Century Mansplanation
The Feat of First Love: Maundy Thursday 2019
A New Hosannah: Palm Sunday 2019
Anglicanism, Authority, and the Myth of the Three Legged Stool
Faith, Hope, and Love in an Anxious Age: 7 Last Words, Motherhood, and the Forsaken
Faith, Hope, and Love in an Anxious Age: 7 Last Words, the Offense of the Cross, and the Good Thief
Faith, Hope, and Love in an Anxious Age: 7 Last Words, Evangelism, and the UMC
Faith, Hope, and Love in an anxious Age: Forgiveness, Sacrifce, and the Song of Myself
Faith, Hope, and Love in an Anxious Age: Human Composting, the Old Green Deal, and You
CC Epiphany Gathering: the Heart is Darkest before the Dawn
According to the Scriptures: Jesus and the Resurrection of the Body
Faith, Hope, and Love in an Anxious Age: Insecurity, Humility, Epistemology, and #Triggered
Jesus and the Rollercoaster of Life: a sermon for Epiphany 4
CC Epiphany Gathering: Fake News, Blank Slates, and the Question of Truth
Abraham and Moses Untangled: A sermon for the Conversion of Paul
Faith, Hope, and Love in an Anxious Age: Parenting, Law, and the “Gospel” of Love
Faith, Hope, and Love in an Anxious Age: Theology, Sheilaism, and #Metoo
Here is another installment of our series, “Faith, Hope, and Love in an Anxious Age;” enjoy!
600 Bottles of Wine on the Wall: The Wedding at Cana
A sermon for the 2nd Sunday of Epiphany
The Confession of Peter: Language as the House of Being
Here is a sermon for the Feast day of the Confession of Peter–I got a little bit speculative here, but hey, better to think too much than too little:) I hope you are edified!
Faith, Hope, and Love in an anxious Age: how the Bible (still) speaks today.
Here is week 1 of a new series I’m doing here at Christ Church. I’m attempting to do a bit of teaching along with some cultural analysis each week–still working on the format, but as I said in the class, this is a devotional activity for me as much as anything; enjoy!
The Baptism of the World: Epiphany 2019
A sermon for the feast day of the Epiphany, 2019
Name that Gospel: A Sermon for Jan 1
At our midweek service we celebrated the feast day of the Holy Name of Jesus. It was an opportunity to reflect a bit on the trinity, soteriology, and arianism–you know, just what everyone comes to a midweek communion service for:) I do hope, however, that it was edifying for those in attendance and that you might be similarly encouraged early on in 2019!
December 28th: The Feast Day of the Holy Inocents
I was given the opportunity to preach this midweek feast back in 2011 at Christ Church, Vienna and for some reason never posted it. It was one of my earliest sermons there and I was thankful for the opportunity to reflect on an observance about which I knew very litte. Since then, this day has always been one of the most touching for me in my personal reflections because of how it speaks to the enduring hope we have in the face of some of the deepest pain known to humanity, namely, the loss of a child.
The collect appointed for today:
We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish your rule of justice, love, and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen
Something Holy Different: a sermon for Christmas Day 2018
The Church in the 21st Century 2/2
Here is the second installment of my foray into the Rector’s Forum here at Christ Church. I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to be introduced to the church here in this way–Lord have mercy on us all! ha.
The Church in the 21st Century 1/2
I have the joy and privilege of commandeering the Rector’s forum here at Christ Church this week and next, so here you have another audacious title for one more look at contemporary culture and the intersection of what Barth would say as the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. Enjoy!
