Sermons
Sermon for Feast of the Ascension (transferred) — May 2018
Training Season Has Started
Training season has started. Yesterday I headed out to Geist Creek Lake in Shelbyville to swim. As of today I am going public with the news that I am committed to swim the English Channel in September of 2021. More details about that will follow later. For today I am just lett...
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Sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
May 6, 2018 (Derby Sunday in Kentucky and rainiest Derby on record)
Anyone get to go to Churchill Downs this week? Did you go on a sunny day or a rainy day? I did not go to Churchill Downs this year. I did not miss the track experience. I still feel soaked from last year.
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Sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
I finally put away my Easter decorations yesterday.
I finally put away my Easter decorations yesterday. And by “put away” I mean I opened the small storage closet outside my apartment balcony and carefully shove-balanced the basket of easter eggs on the bucket of plush rabbits on the decorative baby-chick tray on the 5 gallon b...
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Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Easter — April 22, 2018
Combined service with reception for Elizabeth as new rector
Go ahead and read the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke too. Today is really all about one person isn’t it. Jesus. You didn’t think I was going to talk about me did you?
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Sermon for the Third Sunday of Easter — April 15, 2018
I want to let you eavesdrop on something that’s been going on between me and God...
...Every year I choose a word to live by. It’s more accurate to say a word chooses me. Well, what really happens is I hear God praying a prayer for me. Between 2014 and 2017 that prayer has been “Forward.” And “Forward” became my focus. Anytime I would feel closed-in or uncert...
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