One More Sermon

Here it is. The last time I'm preaching here. It ended up being 10 sermons in total, so nothing to scoff at.

This one is a bit fiery. It just ended up coming out that way. Amos will do that to people.

The lectionary is (see Amos):

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Pentecost/CProp10_RCL.html

Every Last Day

It is an aphorism of the young and enthusiastic to "live each day as if it were your last" and though I understand the impulse, I think it is misguided.

Or at the very least, a misuse of language.

Sermon IX

Another sermon? Huh. OK then.

All glibness aside, I preached again today which was--as always--a great pleasure and honor. Here it is for your reading pleasure.

The lectionary (I used 1 Kings as opposed to Isaiah):

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Pentecost/CProp7_RCL.html

Not Knowing

This is an idea that I've been thinking of for a while but is kind of hard to explain. 

That being said, I will try. Here goes nothing.

Preacher Man

I preached again. Not much more to say beyond that... Enjoy!

The lectionary can be found (Track 1): 

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Pentecost/CProp4_RCL.html

At School

This is to be printed in the forthcoming issue of UXOLO (the brothers' newsletter).

Here is an early preview!

A Thought or Two

I wrote this a while back with little intention of sharing it as it felt a little too dense and esoteric for this platform.

But as I have already shared things that fit that description and I'm in the sharing mood, here is this.

Another Sermon

Not much to say beyond that.

Here it is. Enjoy!

The lectionary can be found here:

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Easter/CEaster6_RCL.html

Facing the Difficult

This is an idea that I've been wrestling with since my first day in South Africa.

I will not pretend that I am providing a definitive answer though my tone is sweeping at times; this is simply one person's approach to what is an unanswerable problem.

Collect

This is the collect for the Third Sunday of Easter in the Anglican Prayer Book (Southern Africa). 

Every time I have heard it this week the words have been more moving than the last. I felt compelled to share it.

Guilt

I'll be honest; this one makes me nervous. It feels like a level of sharing that is perhaps too much. Even as I have moved beyond the feelings discussed below, exposing this part of myself that I worked so hard to hide feels...reckless.

But I think these thoughts are important and worth sharing. We all hope to find ourselves--to whatever extent possible--in the lives and stories of others; perhaps that's all writing really comes down to as well. Hoping that someone will find themselves in you.

On Love

This is something I've been mulling a lot recently, prompted by an excerpt from a sermon of Augustine of Hippo on what it means to "take up your cross".

As sacrifice is a central theme of the Christian faith it is worth wrestling with what exactly we are being called to do; what "taking up your cross" means. The key, as I see it, is love.

Third Sunday in Lent

I preached again this past Sunday. Not to be immodest but I'm pretty happy with how this one came out.

The lectionary as usual: 

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Lent/CLent3_RCL.html

Sermonizing

I preached again! I'm becoming old hat here.

Here's the lectionary as usual: 

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Epiphany/CEpi4_RCL.html

The Baptism of Christ

I'm slightly baffled to have preached this past Sunday--I feel like I keep getting pretty weighty material--but here it is as best as I could manage.

The lectionary can be found here:

http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Epiphany/CEpi1_RCL.html