Dear Jesus, please give us eyes to see, and ears to hear, and hearts to understand your presence in our midst this morning and every day. Amen. So Jesus comes back to his hometown, and, on the Sabbath, began to preach. Here’s what he might have been saying: “The Kingdom of God is here - repent, and believe the good news.” Or according to Luke’s account: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the … [Read more...]
Witness
John the Pointer
“In the wilderness, prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God… Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed and all people shall see it together…” (Is 40:3,5) Let us pray: O God, may I speak as one speaking the very words of God (1 Pt 4:11), and may your glory be revealed to us in the Word made flesh, your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Every Sunday when we celebrate Eucharist is a feast day, we celebrate and remember Jesus’s body and blood through … [Read more...]
A Sermon for the End of the World
“Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.” It’s a central part of our liturgy and indeed of the Christian faith itself and yet it is perhaps one of the least understood aspects of our faith partly because it is literally unprecedented. It is an event that we simply have no frame of reference for. And yet each time we gather to worship we confess this reality. There it is in the middle of the Nicene Creed: “We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the … [Read more...]