Updated November 28. One of my favorite Christmas carols is one that Ryan introduced to me a few years back at a Christmas Comfort service: Come Darkness, Come Light – written and performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter. It’s really more of an Advent, than a Christmas Carol. It deeply echoes this solstice season we are…
For email posts, click here to watch online. It’s around this time every year when the church calendar begins to include end-times themes into the Sunday readings. And depending on how you count them, the Gospel writers document around 40 parables that Jesus told. In some – like the parable of the mustard seed –…
For email posts, click here to watch “Beauty-tide” online. When I was little, we had this old family bible that I just loved. It was a huge King James, with the words of Jesus printed in red, and it had those gold-edged pages, which I loved to fan out and flip through as a child.…
For email posts, click here to watch online. It is that time again. Over the river and through the woods! Family expectations. Time honored traditions. The busiest travel day of the year. Black Friday. Macy’s Day Parade. The kickoff to the holidays. Just how are we going to do Thanksgiving this year? Thanksgiving in a…
For email posts, click here to watch online. Let me tell you the story of V Street versus 13th Street. It is my family’s story wrapped up in the story of my family’s hometown. (My apologies to those of you who have already heard it!) My beloved hometown is just a stone’s throw across the Potomac.…
For email posts, click here to watch online. We think of the last days of Jesus’ final week as being full of challenges coming at Him from every side. (Understatement of the century, right?!) During His final week Jesus dealt with betrayal, arrest, torture, and crucifixion. Jesus’ final week was full of challenges coming at Him…
For email posts, click here to watch online. “I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my whole being shall exult in my God;for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.” Isaiah…
For email posts, click here to watch online. I recall just a week ago or so hearing the Guitar Circle play and Jennifer Jones wonderfully sing: All Creatures of our God and King. Outdoors and under blue skies. All creatures of our God and King, lift up your voices, let us sing, Alleluia, alleluia! Bright…
For email posts, click here to watch online. Early in the pandemic I saw a comic which read: “I Finished Netflix!” I laughed out loud because at the time I didn’t have a subscription to Netflix. Now I do. Since signing up, my friend Erin recommended that I check out the Netflix series TURИ. Reluctantly, I tuned in one day…
My apologies to those of you who have already read my blog post from a few weeks ago. It has now evolved into this September 20th homily. Discernment-wise and content-wise. This one you can also listen to or watch. So, I begin in the same place and end in another. Over the past several weeks,…
