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Marriage is a Three-Person’d Promise
Ephesians 4, 1 John 4 Since Jesus promises that wherever two or three are gathered under the power of his name there he is present too, I probably shouldn’t lie. I’ve never really liked weddings....
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Punished by Rewards
Matthew 25.31-46 I celebrated a wedding last weekend for a family from my former parish. I hate weddings. Wedding planners are the bane of my existence— they’re almost always like those women Sandra...
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Squatter’s Rites
Here’s the Pentecost sermon I preached at All Saints Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas. The texts were Acts 2, Romans 8, and John 14. Today is Pentecost, and as always we read from St. Luke’s sequel,...
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(Un)Like a Virgin
We continued our summer sermon series through the parables with Matthew’s story of the ten virgins, preached by the summer minion, David King. The Bridegroom Cometh,” but that came too late. Better...
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God Gone Wild
Our summer sermon series through the parables continued with Jesus’ macabre little drama in Matthew 22.1-14 Last week, some of your lay leaders and I were emailing each other back and forth regarding...
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Scripture and Sexuality Study— Session Four: The Clobber Passages and the...
We’re doing a church-wide Bible study on Scripture and Sexuality in my congregation this summer. In addition to the crowd at church, literally thousands have downloaded the class notes or audio. It’s...
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Go and Sin Some More
Luke 18.9-14 — The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican At the first unsuspecting church on which a bishop foisted me— we staged a Christmas pageant during the season of Advent. During dress...
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Everything You Need to Know You Didn’t Learn in Kindegarten
Luke 10.25-37 I’ve had it sitting in my sermon file for years, a review of the book,In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa, by the journalist Daniel Bergner, whose...
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Performance Anxiety
Matthew 25.14-30 Hey- Hey, you got a flashlight? Or, even a match? Yeah, I figured as much. You can call me #3. No, I was never a Next Generation fan, why? What about...
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And All of God’s People Say: What the…!?
Luke 16.1-8 “He’ll get what he has coming to him.” I was sitting on a barstool in her kitchen when Diane exploded at me, “He’ll get what he has coming to him!” Diane was standing in her...
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The Way of the Son in the Far Country
Luke 15.11-32 St. Luke reports the motive. The Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling, Luke writes at the top of chapter fifteen. They were outraged: “This Jesus welcomes sinners— tax collectors,...
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Every Last Loser
Matthew 20.1-16 I’m sorry if you’ve been led to believe that Jesus should mind his own business and stay out of the public square. “I don’t want to hear about politics at church!” It’s maybe the only...
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Episode #228 — Chaim Saiman: Halakhah: The Jewish Idea of Law
What if the generations of Talmudic interpretation demonstrate an inherently gracious nature to the Jewish Law? What if Protestant Christians are wrong and the Law is not a burdensome command meant to...
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Episode #232: Sarah Condon —We All Get to Go Home with Beth Moore and Jesus
Fresh on the heels of evangelical preacher John MacArthur saying that evangelical preacher (*a woman*) Beth Moore should “Go home,” we have our friend Rev. Sarah Condon back on the podcast to reflect...
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Episode #233: Matthew Bates — Gospel Allegiance: What Faith in Jesus Misses...
Is faith in Jesus enough for salvation? Perhaps, says Matthew Bates, but we’re missing pieces of the gospel. The biblical gospel can never change. Yet our understanding of the gospel must change. The...
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