Sermons from July 2021

B Proper 21 Land Acknowledgement Reckoning With Our Past and with God’s Mercy I recently had the privilege to represent you all in welcoming back from the pandemic exile the Gratitude Group of Alcoholics Anonymous that meets in our Campbell Hall on Tuesday evenings at 8 p.m.. In welcoming them, I thanked their organization for saving the lives of some of my best friends. If you have attended AA, you know that when each member speaks she or he introduces…

Proper 10B: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19; Psalm 24; Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:14-29 + In the name of God Creator, God Redeemer, and God Sanctifier. Amen. Please be seated. There are, by some estimations, somewhere in the neighborhood of 45,000 different Christian denominations in the world today. This includes some very recognizable groups such as the various provinces of our own Anglican Communion, the Roman Catholics, several varieties of Lutherans, several more varieties of Baptists, and so forth, to literally thousands…

We Remain Unfinished Garrison Keeler, of Prairie Home Companion fame, invariably began his weekly monologue with: “It’s been a quiet week in Lake Woebegone, my hometown…” What do you consider to be your “hometown”? Is your hometown the place where you were born– or the place where you grew up?  Or the place where you are living now? I recently returned from visiting my mother—who turns 99 years old next Sunday and who still lives in the house that I…

Click HERE to watch a recording of this sermon on our YouTube channel. God, give us open eyes to see you, opens ears to hear you, so that we may know you and believe you. Amen I’m sure I’m not the person you expected to be preaching for re-opening Sunday. I am here today because as the lectionary and life cross paths. I asked Fr. Chip if I could preach on this Gospel passage about two years ago. Because despite…