Homily
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The Blessed Community
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8 min read
Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, and all of the saints a Homily for the Feast of All Saints | Text: Matthew 5:1-12 For us, this principal feast we call All Saints is not so much about honoring the dead, but honoring the community: the whole community: past and present and future. For honoring only our…
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First, Love
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7 min read
How Jesus’s subversive call to love continues to challenge us a Homily for Proper 25A | Text: Matthew 22:34-46 Commander Love Love GOD. Love neighbor. This is the basis for all of our teaching. We can see it, too. When we read those first five books of our sacred scripture, those written in Hebrew, we…
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Rejecting the Trap
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6 min read
The dishonesty behind asking compromises any answer Jesus may have to the question a Homily for Proper 24A | Text: Matthew 22:15-22 The Trap This is not a story about taxes. This is a story about a trap that backfires. A trap set to deal with authority. And every time we go near the question of…
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Closer to the Kingdom
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7 min read
How the negative helps us find the positive in the Parable of the Wicked Tenants a Homily for Proper 22 A | Text: Matthew 21:33-46 It is a great honor to be here to join you this morning. I am so thankful for the grace and generosity that has been shown to me already. I…
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When a rock is not a rock
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6 min read
rethinking Jesus’s vision of church, Peter, and the love of GOD We mistake the naming of Peter as reflective of his character, rather than His. a Homily for Proper 16 A | Text: Matthew 16:13-20 desiring proof Again the Pharisees. Those ancient ideological evangelicals–obsessed with rule-following–return. This time they’ve brought back-up: the Sadducees. Not…