Tag: proclaim

  • How Do Other People Hear Our Gospel Message?

    How Do Other People Hear Our Gospel Message?

    It seems that, right now, in the United States, in the midst of the Charleston shooting, two years of national conversations about race, and arguing over the confederate flag, we have long ignored the most crucial part of communication. A Should’ve Asked Question   When Jesus tells us to proclaim the gospel to all nations,…

  • Word obsessed

    Word obsessed

    Lately, though, words have begun to mean even more to me. Not simply because I write, teach, and preach as a priest or as a sentry posted to defend orthodoxy from the heretics. [That’s all nonsense to me, by the way.] But because our faith keeps coming back to words. Simply words. Having words. Words…

  • When the Spirit Comes

    When the Spirit Comes

    Seeing, Hearing, Feeling and Testifying in Truth Pentecost  |  John 15:26-27 & 16:4b-15   When the advocate comes After Jesus comes back from the dead and appears to Mary, appears to his disciples, then appears to them again, now with Thomas in their midst, he says to them that iconic phrase: “Blessed are those who…

  • Welcoming is Loving

    Why the word you want is proclaim, not communicate a Homily for Proper 8 A Text: Matthew 10:40-42 Getting into it I struggled with this text a lot. Way more than any text in months. You wouldn’t guess that three little verses would be so hard. And you certainly wouldn’t expect a lectionary text about welcoming…