The Good Big Thing

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010Luke 24: 1-35 Have you ever been inside something that’s bigger inside than it is on the outside? You have. Your family, for starters. Unless you’re a Kennedy or a Bush, no family is...

The Sent-Down Man

listen to this sermon Text on Good Friday April 2, 2010 John 13: 1-17 Will Christianity pass away? Will some other religion or philosophy take its place? You hear such questions from time to time. The so-called “new atheists” like Sam Harris and...

For the Healing of the Nations

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 21, 2010Mark 6: 1-13 The connection between healing and faith, though well documented, is generally filed under “the placebo effect,” which is, that your medicine...

The Broken Word

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on the Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 14, 2010Mark 14: 26-46 When I was thirty-three, trekking deep in the Adirondacks as I do almost every year, a bolt of lightning flew down on a great hemlock under which I meant...

Over Throne

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, February 28, 2010Romans 13: 1-10 Many years ago, I spent my working days in the hill towns west of Albany. One January evening, I was talking with a sheriff’s deputy posted up there. He told me that all...