Sermons

Seeking Lent: On this first Sunday of Lent, we hear the story of Jesus’ Wilderness Wanderings. We ponder what it means to be empty and face temptation. Rather than viewing emptiness as creating a state of vulnerability, we think about emptiness as creating a state of empowerment through

On this Transfiguration Sunday we empathize with Peter who wishes to freeze the mountain top experience in time in order to avoid the pain that is to come in Jerusalem. When things change, and the change is painful, we often want to freeze life as it is with its comfort and security. As God

Today, we hear the 6 antithetical statements on Mosaic Law found in Matthew 5. There are more prescriptive statements that follow (and I invite readers to read Matthew 6), but these today deal with Mosaic law and we hear only four of the six in our Lectionary reading. As we consider them, we

In today’s story Jesus reminds us that we are the salt and light of the world. Salt and light are active descriptions of who Jesus’ followers are and what they are called to do. The story offers a corrective for Jesus’ original followers whose faith had become unbalanced. The