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Sermon for Sunday, April 21st 2024 – Easter 4 – I am the good shepherd

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Fourth Sunday of Easter, rcl yr bSunday, April 21st, 2024ACTS 4:5-12; PSALM 23; 1 JOHN 3:16-24; JOHN 10:11-18 I am the good shepherd But what about the mediocre shepherds? “The Lord is my shepherd,” writes the Psalmist. But what kind of shepherd? Is this shepherd a good shepherd? Well, we don’t know. Or at least […]

Sermon for Sunday, April 14th 2024 – Easter 3 – in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering

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Third Sunday of Easter, rcl yr bSunday, April 14th, 2024ACTS 3:12-19; PSALM 4; 1 JOHN 3:1-7; LUKE 24:36b-48 in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering This particular resurrection appearance of Jesus is one that has a special place in my imagination. I spent a good number of deeply formative years in camping ministry, […]

Sermon for Sunday, April 7th 2024 – Easter 2 – Receive the Holy Spirit

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Second Sunday of Easter, rcl yr b; Sunday, April 7th, 2024ACTS 4:32-35; PSALM 133; 1 JOHN 1:1-2:2; JOHN 20:19-31 Receive the Holy Spirit In John’s Gospel, the final thing that happens just as Jesus dies on the cross, is that he “bowed his head and gave up his spirit.” But there is a liberty here […]

Sermon for Sunday, March 31st 2024 – Easter Sunday

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The Sunday of the Resurrection: Easter Day, rcl yr bSunday, March 31, 2024ACTS 10:34-43; PSALM 118:1-2, 14-24; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-11; MARK 16:1-8 for they were afraid There’s something of a mystery surrounding the ending of Mark’s Gospel. And that mystery is: how exactly does it end? There are three, or maybe even four, different contenders […]

Sermon for Saturday, March 30th 2024 – Easter Vigil

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March 30, 2023 after 8 p.m.The Vigil of Easter This is the night when first you saved our forebears:you freed the people of Israel from their slaveryand led them dry-shod through the sea. This is the night when Christians everywhere,clean of sin and freed from all desecration,are restored to grace and grow together in holiness. […]

Sermon for Friday, March 29th 2024 – Good Friday

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Good Friday: The Celebration of the Lord’s PassionFriday, March 29th, 2024ISAIAH 52:13-53:12; PSALM 22; HEBREWS 4:14-16, 5:7-9; JOHN 18:1-19:42 See, my servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and lifted up,and shall be very high. Before Julian of Norwich was granted her visions, and while she was still in bed thinking she was about to […]

Sermon for Thursday, March 28th 2024 – Maundy Thursday

March 28, 2024 %2$s', 'author', 'risen'), esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ), // author URL get_the_author() // author name );*/ ?>

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. What is it that others would see in us that might make them point and say, ah, obviously Christians there? And does the world even recognize love for what it truly is? For Christians, love is the mystery […]

Sermon for Sunday, March 24th 2024

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March 24, 2023Palm / Passion Sunday You can show kindness to them whenever you wish. Friends, Please be seated. Some time ago, I fastened on a word that Preston has used a number of times in his preaching and which is a hallmark of our rector’s teaching and of this parish’s inreach and outreach. The […]

Sermon for Sunday, March 17th 2024 – Lent 5 – Sir, we wish to see Jesus

March 17, 2024 %2$s', 'author', 'risen'), esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ), // author URL get_the_author() // author name );*/ ?>

Fifth Sunday in Lent, rcl yr b, Sunday, March 17th, 2024JEREMIAH 31:31-34; PSALM 119:9-16; HEBREWS 5:5-10; JOHN 12:20-33 Sir, we wish to see Jesus You have to feel at least a little bit bad for the poor Greeks in today’s gospel reading. They were at the festival—probably among the Greeks who were drawn to Judaism—and […]

Sermon for Sunday, March 10th 2024 – Lent 4 – so must the Son of Man be lifted up

March 10, 2024 %2$s', 'author', 'risen'), esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ), // author URL get_the_author() // author name );*/ ?>

Fourth Sunday in Lent, Sunday, March 10th, 2024NUMBERS 21:4-9; PSALM 107:1-3, 17-22; EPHESIANS 2:1-10; JOHN 3:14-21 so must the Son of Man be lifted up Our passage from John includes a verse that is perhaps the best known of all—John 3:16. I memorized it as a kid from the King James version of the Bible: […]