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...

Sin Seriously

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on the First Sunday of Lent, February 21, 2010Luke 4: 1-13 Temptation, to judge from the way the word is used, is pretty simple, if pretty bad. There are pleasures and treasures and powers that ought not be sought,...

Speechless

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Transfiguration Sunday,   February 14, 2010    Mark 9: 2-10 When you read the Old Testament prophets—Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and more—you notice that two concerns trouble them, and...

Local Universal Church

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, January 31, 2010  John 14: 1-7, 25-27 When you were new to New York and its subway, and you were down under headed somewhere, do you remember the tension, feeling you’re not going the right way? Going...