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Sermon Pentecost IV (RCL Cycle B – Proper 7) June 20, 2021

Storms at Sea and Taking a Nap When I was serving as a Navy chaplain, one of my assignments was aboard U.S.S. CONCORD (AFS-5) out of Norfolk, Virginia.  She was a fleet replenishment ship and we carried “Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil” (she’s now resting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii as […]

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Sermon, June 13, 2021 – Pentecost III

Growing the Kingdom All their lives the two young brothers had lived in the city behind great stone walls and never saw field nor meadow. But one day they decided to pay a visit to the country. As they went walking along the road, they saw a farmer at his plowing. They watched him and […]

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Sermon, June 6, 2021

Take Heart Pentecost/Ordinary Time II (RCL Cycle B; Track 1)/6 June 2021 This morning we start our long journey through the “Green Season,” also known as the Season After Pentecost, or Ordinary Time.  The term “ordinary” does not mean common place, every day, or the usual; rather it refers the number of weeks – as […]

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Sermon, Trinity Sunday, May 30, 2021

Conversations Trinity Sunday (RCL Cycle B)/30 May 2021  Today is Trinity Sunday and it marks a transition from our past six months considering the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus the Christ to the long green season of Ordinary Time.  This six-month long season goes by several names – the Season after Pentecost, […]