Sermons

Bearing something that is unbearable. I hope you don’t have to experience that but some of us will. As a chaplain, my entire career has been about being with suffering people in crisis. Many of them will tell me that they are bearing something unbearable. Here are some snippets from my past week at work. […]

I’d like to start by acknowledgingthat we’ve deviated from the lectionary textfor today’s gospel reading.Many thanks to Archbishop Skeltonfor giving us permission to do thatas we launch the New Wineskins Capital Campaign.You may have noticed the thermometers in the narthexas you walked in! About six weeks agowe heard the passagessurrounding these four versesthat we hear

-Parables — meant to tease. Lots of possible interpretations-Chapter full of them. What part doesn’t make sense?-Jesus provides an interpretation but may not be the only interpretation-Usual use of interpretation focuses on us. What kind of soil am I?-But that makes sense and is easily explained-Read parable again-What doesn’t make sense? Gardeners and farmers, what’s

Following Jesus, proclaiming that the kingdom of of heaven has come near, living how he taught to live, and enacting God’s unlimited love… is going to cause problems in interpersonal relationships. When Jesus talks about people close to us that doesn’t just mean families. It means literal neighbors, too.