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Easter and Empathy
[A sermon on Luke 24:1-12; for an audio recording of this sermon, click here] Alleluia! Christ is Risen! Christ is Risen indeed, Alleluia! This is the proclamation of Easter morning. It’s the reason the church is full of joyful flowers, and it’s why our songs and prayers are full of praise. But it’s NOT anywhere in our Easter gospel reading… did anyone notice that? For such a joy-filled day, in many ways the pinnacle of our faith story, the gospel story seems a little… lackin
Remembrance and Re-membering
[A sermon on Luke 22:7-34; for an audio recording of this sermon, click here] “Do this in remembrance of me.” I have said those words several hundred times at the altar table, and I’ve heard them thousands more, but they grabbed my attention in a new way, this Lent. That’s because late one night, in early March, I woke up with those words ringing in my brain and a conviction that they needed to be at the center of this Maundy Thursday sermon. In case you were wondering, that
What Would We Have Done? (What Are We Doing?)
[For an audio recording of this sermon, click here] A sermon on Luke 19:28-44 I was recently listening to an episode of the Good Ancestor podcast in which the host, Layla Saad, was interviewing author Glennon Doyle about her efforts to be a force for positive change in the world. Some of their conversation focused on Glennon’s experience with becoming more conscious of the racial realities in our country, and in that conversation she told a story about an interaction with her
God is About To Do a New Thing (Are You Ready?)
[photo credit Danielle Macinnes @dsmacinnes] A sermon on John 12:1-8 [and audio version of the sermon is available here]. “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:19) So promises God, through the prophet Isaiah, to a people who had little reason to believe that any good thing was in their future. This verse comes from today’s first reading, which is found in a section of the book of Isaiah written to the people of Israel while t
