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Sermon for Easter 6, Year B. Preached 5/13/12 at St. Peter’s/Ladue and Good Shepherd/Town & Country Jesus promises us, “I will not leave you orphaned.” Still, some days, it’s hard not to feel orphaned and abandoned, alone in a forbidding world. Life has a way of piling on. To be human and aware of . . . → Read More: Sermon notes: Listening to the Advocate SERMON NOTES, GOOD FRIDAY, April 6, 2012 ∙ Today, Jesus’s long journey to the Cross has come to its end. We have been walking with him on his painful road for the last 40 days, in the Sunday Gospel readings, in the daily office readings, and in our own Lenten disciplines. From week to . . . → Read More: Sermon notes, Good Friday: Walking with Jesus There’s something about a mountaintop. There’s something about the achievement of the climbing in itself, of making your way upward over steep, difficult ground. And there’s something fulfilling about being at the top: the sense of accomplishment, the views, the sensation of being closer to heaven. . . . → Read More: Sermon notes: From the mountaintop Sermon notes, the Confession of Peter (Preached at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church/St Louis, January 15, 2012) The Gospels contain a veritable solar system of personalities. At the center, of course, is Jesus, the Sun around whom all others revolve. He is the Alpha and Omega, the focus and the reason for the story. In . . . → Read More: Sermon notes: the Confession of Peter SERMON NOTES, CHRISTMAS DAY (10 a.m. December 25, 2011, St. Peter’s/St. Louis) “But Mary treasured all these words, and pondered them in her heart.” It is the morning after the most momentous night in human history, an event bearing layer upon layer of symbolism and meaning: the birth of Jesus, the Messiah, the King . . . → Read More: Sermon notes: The next morning Sermon notes, Advent I, Year B (11/27/11). Preached at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church/St. Louis Well, wasn’t that a cheery set of readings? Third Isaiah calls on God to rip open the heavens, and confesses that we have all sinned, horribly. Mark speaks of the approaching end of the world, and warns that no one . . . → Read More: Sermon notes: Keep awake! Due to a minor catastrophe a couple of months back - a bathtub pipe, improperly soldered 26 years ago, gave way, leading to an unanticipated construction project - I have become abruptly acquainted with tiles: types of tiles, their sizes and shapes and colors; the basics of installing tiles, and of removing their predecessors; . . . → Read More: Taking note When we moved into this house twenty years ago there was a eucalyptus tree in the back garden, just opposite the kitchen window, a tall, feathery, graceful thing, whose light branches filtered the sunshine without blocking it out. Over the years it grew taller, and it became obvious that it was too near the . . . → Read More: Life and death in the garden Sermon notes, Proper 21, Year A (Preached at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church/St Louis, September 25, 2011) God has been beyond generous to us in all things, from the Creation in which we live to the small blessings of our everyday lives. But God’s most extravagant gift to us was to become human, as one . . . → Read More: Sermon notes: Generosity 9/11 flag display at dawn in Forest Park. Photo © 2011 J.B. Forbes. Used by permission. The morning was sunny and clear, a golden day in early fall very much like that one ten years ago. This time, though, there were no sudden shocks, no new terror, just memory and mourning for people, . . . → Read More: 9/11/11 |
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