Lent

Baptism as a Living Symbol of the Christian Life: Dying and Rising

This is the last of my Lenten sermons on Baptism as a Living Symbol of The Christian Life. I call it, Baptism: Dying and […]

Baptism: Living Symbol of the Christian Life- Following Jesus and Being the Beloved, March 2020

This season, Lent to Easter, let’s ponder Baptism as a living symbol of the Christian life. It is, in my mind, the most complete and […]

How Else but Through a Broken Heart? Ash Wednesday, 2020

Oscar Wilde, the Irish poet and playwriter, harldly known for his Christian faith, who spent two years in prison for being a homosexual wrote these […]

Take Up Your Cross

As we are considering the commands of Christ this Lenten season, few if any of the commands are as central and as challenging […]

Shake off the Dust

It was John Calvin who said, “God knows that we are creatures, and so loves us in ways that we can understand: In bread and […]

Sell and Give

Today’s command is a challenging one indeed. How is it also liberating? How does it fit with Jesus’ words: “For my yoke is […]

Consider the Lilies

Emily Dickinson, great poet of Amherst once wrote: “The only commandment I ever obeyed- ‘Consider the Lilies.’”1 The words point to her worship as wonder […]

Learn of Me

Rilke the poet wrote of knowledge as pleasure, “inexhaustible pleasure.” It is, and it is especially true as we learn of Christ. Today’s liberating […]