Advent and Brahma Muhurta

Readings for the First Sunday of Advent (Year A) Isaiah 2:1-5 Psalm 122 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:36-44 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on November 27, 2022. Teach me, Lord, that I may teach the precious things thou dost impart; and wing my words, that they may reach the hidden depths of […]

The Gift that Keeps on Giving: The Bread of Gratitude

Readings for Thanksgiving (Year C) Deuteronomy 26:1-11Psalm 100Philippians 4:4-9John 6:25-35 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on November 23, 2022. All who hunger sing together, Jesus Christ is living bread. Come from loneliness and longing. Here, in peace, we have been fed. Blest are those who from this table live their days […]

LIstening to The Echo of the Saints

Readings for the Feast of All Saints (Year C) Daniel 7:1-3,15-18Psalm 149Ephesians 1:11-23Luke 6:20-31 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on November 6, 2022. “O teach me, Lord, that I may teach the precious things thou dost impart; and wing my words, that they may reach the hidden depths of many a […]

Rising Above the Noise with Habakkuk and Zacchaeus

Readings for the Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 26 – Year C – Track 1) Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4Psalm 119:137-1442 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12Luke 19:1-10 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on October 30, 2022. “O teach me, Lord, that I may teach the precious things thou dost impart; and wing my words, […]

Prayer that Packs a Persistent Punch

Readings for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24 – Year C – Track 1) Jeremiah 31:27-34Psalm 119:97-1042 Timothy 3:14-4:5Luke 18:1-8 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on October 16, 2022. Over the last several weeks, I’ve been teaching a church history and spirituality class online for the Episcopal seminary in Berkeley […]

The Episcopal Church (1579 – 1792)

A brief introduction to The Episcopal Church for the Anglican Cycle of Prayer The first recorded worship service using the English Book of Common Prayer on American soil was led by Francis Fletcher, the chaplain of Sir Francis Drake on the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist in 1579. Today, there is a large stone Celtic […]

Gratitude Unchained: Where are the Nine?

Readings for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 23 – Year C – Track 1) Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Psalm 66:1-112 Timothy 2:8-15Luke 17:11-19 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on October 9, 2022. There’s a quote attributed to the great 13th century German theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart, who supposedly said that there […]

The Mind-blowing Mulberry Tree

Readings for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 22 – Year C – Track 1) Lamentations 1:1-6Psalm 1372 Timothy 1:1-14Luke 17:5-10 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on October 2, 2022. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”[1] These are the words of a gifted yet troubled man who […]

Community without Chasm (“Rock the Chasma”)

Readings for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 21 – Year C – Track 1) Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15Psalm 91:1-6, 14-161 Timothy 6:6-19Luke 16:19-31 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on September 25, 2022 Jesus said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God” (Luke 6:20) and “Woe […]

How the Light Gets In

Readings for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 20 – Year C – Track 1) Jeremiah 8:18-9:1Psalm 79:1-91 Timothy 2:1-7Luke 16:1-13 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on September 18, 2022 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why is the health of my poor people not being […]