“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

~ Oscar Wilde

People of the Valley

2017-07-14T09:33:13-04:00March 4th, 2017|Sermons|

The First Sunday in Lent Luke 4:1-13 Jesus walked that lonesome valley…had to walk it by himself. Nobody else could walk it for him…had to walk it by himself. The old African-American spiritual that many of us learned to sing as children powerfully captures the feeling of today’s reading from the Gospel of Luke. Jesus has just been baptized in the River Jordan. The Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, descends upon him and a voice sounds from heaven saying, “You are my Son whom I love, with you I am well-pleased.” What a moment of spiritual [READ MORE]

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Into Ashes – a Meditation for Ash Wednesday

2022-09-07T11:17:25-04:00March 1st, 2017|Sermons|

  It is a sobering reality to know that last year’s palm branches are this year’s ashes. My Catholic friends know this, of course – that the ashes dispensed on Ash Wednesday at the beginning of Lent are created from burning the palm branches from the previous Palm Sunday. Palm branches…into ashes. Triumph…into tragedy. Life…into death. It seems to me that we miss something when we think of Palm Sunday – with all its loud Hosanna’s! accompanying Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem – as anything resembling a triumph. The disciples, of course, thought that Jesus was coming to overthrow the Roman government [READ MORE]

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