The Healing Medicine of Hope

Proper 16C

I’ve been praying for a lot of hurting people lately. You know who some of them are because their names are on the Trinity prayer list. In recent weeks we’ve prayed for people with COVID, with cancer, and for people recovering from surgery. Some of you here today have been among those we’re praying for. I also know … Read the rest

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You Do You

Lent 3C

My older son Amos is kind of the peacemaker in the family. And if you know my smart-aleck younger son Aaron—which many of you do because he worked as your youth and family minister last year—you’d know why we need a peacemaker in the family! Amos is also a very good designer: he’s done a lot of the … Read the rest

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Sight for Suspect Saints

Romans 8:18-25Luke 13:18-21saint-eyes

Last Friday afternoon, as I was preparing my sermon for Sunday, I had something of a small-scale panic attack. I was a long way away from home—retreating in Sonoma County—when I discovered that I’d left my reading glasses behind. So there I was, ensconced in the deep shade of the shade of the redwoods, struggling … Read the rest

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