A sermon on Genesis 1:1-5, preached at Park Avenue Christian Church, New York, NY, on November 27, 2022 (Advent I). Watch it on YouTube here. When beginning he, God, created the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was shapeless and formless and bleakness covered […]
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A sermon preached at the Sunday worship service at Church in the Highlands in White Plains, NY, on November 14, 2021. Scripture readings: Daniel 12: 1-3 Mark 13: 1-8 I wonder if any among you, if asked to name your favorite Bible verse, would point […]
This sermon was originally delivered for the online Sunday worship service at Park Avenue Christian Church, New York, NY, on July 4, 2021. View the recording here. In the dark of the evening they set out on the lake, assured in the navigational skills […]
This sermon was originally delivered at the online Sunday service of Scarsdale Congregational Church in Scarsdale, NY, on August 9, 2020. We are capable of more than we imagine. I witnessed this truth in action over and over when I used to work as a […]
The prayer that Jesus instructs his followers to pray is a communal prayer, asking not for God to fill my needs, but for the needs of all in the community to be filled. Not just for God to forgive my sins, but for an economy of mercy to prevail in all our dealings with one another. In short, it is a prayer that requires something those who pray it.
![God Touches Jeremiah's Mouth, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55596 [retrieved July 30, 2016]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinchesterBibleJeremiah(cover).GIF.](https://i0.wp.com/thequestionsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/winchesterbiblejeremiahcov-large.jpg?resize=510%2C510&ssl=1)
This sermon was originally preached at Mission Hills UCC, January 31, 2016 Scripture readings: Jeremiah 1:4-10; Luke 4:21-30 I love listening to stories of how people first heard their call, first understood what their life’s vocation would be. For most of us, I think, it’s less of […]