People though the disciples were drunk on Pentecost morning. Ecstasy, alcohol, passion, and Spirit...

Christ's resurrection foreshadows human destiny: to live as a royal priesthood as stewards of the renewed creation

What if a horse started playing Beethoven? If you had never in your life encountered something new and strange and unexpected, you'd have trouble talking about it. You'd stutter and stumble. You'd be shocked and amazed. You'd maybe be a little afraid but

What does Eucharist mean? Or footwashing? I don't know. Jesus just tells us to do them. There's something about love, something about God, something about salvation or forgiveness or remembering or blessing. Lots of meanings that we discover as we go. We'

Moses lifted a snake up on a pole to heal the snake-bit people. Christ lifted on the cross reminds us that God has acted to save and heal us already. We need only look up, and notice, and let our hearts point towards him.

To follow Jesus as lord and savior doesn't mean that we avoid suffering and want and pain in our lives. Those things are part of every life. Following Jesus, though, means walking the path of one who has been through worse and come out better, and leads u

very year we reach what we call "the last Sunday after Epiphany." Of course, this is the last Sunday before Lent. We always hear the gospel lesson about the Transfiguration. It's a glorious vision for Peter, James, and John, and it's a glorious vision for

When Jesus exorcises a demon, he tells them to be silent. You ever notice that? It's because demons are weak. Their only real weapon is their words. Robbed of words, demons are powerless. Of course, their words spoken to us when we're vulnerable, sick, or

A long sermon. Sorry about that. Jesus teaches with "authority." What does it mean to do that? And what does it have to do with Paul's advice to the Corinthians about eating or not eating meat? True authority is grounded in self-sacrificial love, and in a

"God placed his son in Mary’s womb, in Joseph’s arms, in the company of his friends, in the midst of the crowds, at the mercy of Pontius Pilate, because nothing other than divine vulnerability could show us the power of our compassion and the potentia