Homilies
July 3, 2022
Paul said the time would come, a time when people would no longer “tolerate sound doctrine” but rather follow their own “desires” and “curiosity,” listening no longer to the truth but instead to “myths.”[1] Jesus too—he didn’t suggest his followers would be all that successful in their preaching either. The “world hates you,” he told his […]
July 10, 2022
I can’t say I feel all that fit to preach today, given how I failed this gospel just a few days ago.
July 23, 2022
Kathleen Norris, the spiritual writer, said it was a “force we ignore at our peril.”[1] She was talking about the spiritual affliction, the wicked thought, the sin called acedia—sometimes called sloth. Which happens to the best of us, many of us (which was Norris’ point).
August 7, 2022
Let’s review what we’ve heard these past few weeks. Let’s review what Jesus said.
September 4, 2022
It’s a bit jaundiced but probably true, what Mark Twain said.
September 11, 2022
The genius and grace of our faith is that we’re allowed to begin again; we’re invited to start over—over and over again. No matter what; no matter how bad it gets.