Lent 5, Yr C Gospel Reading: John 12:1-8
The stage is set. The characters are slowly taking their places for the final scene. The first odors of death already hang in the air in Bethany, near Jerusalem. Lazarus, so recently called forth out of his tomb, where he had been dead for four days, now walks [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Posted in Sermons on March 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Light in the Darkness of Lent
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
March 21st is the twenty-fifth out of forty days of Lent—halfway through this penitential season of the Church year. Ash Wednesday ushered in the season of Lent, with an invitation to “the observance of a Holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word.” [...]
Goodbye to Renee
Posted in Sermons on March 13, 2007 | No Comments »
One of my parishioners lost a brave battle with cancer last week. She had a rare, adult soft tissue sarcoma in her hip, and had fought the good fight for three years. The last ten days on this side of the great divide of life were spent in ICU, where many family members and good [...]
Stuff Happens. . .And What Are We Going to Do About THAT?
Posted in Sermons on March 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Lent 3, Yr C Sermon Gospel: Luke 13:1-9
Last Tuesday, Bishop Fred Borsch—retired bishop from the Diocese of Los Angeles—was our guest speaker at a Diocese of Delaware clergy gathering. His topic was preaching, so we discussed today’s gospel from Luke. The bishop admitted that the gospel today was pretty difficult. After some lively discussion, he [...]
Being Right or Being in Relationship?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2007 | No Comments »
During Lent, there’s a lot of emphasis on our sins, God’s judgment, our repentance from sins, and if we are really serious about repenting—in both the Hebrew and Greek sense of the word—we turn from the direction we had been going, to move in the opposite direction. So there is a real change, a metanoia, [...]
