sermons

“Maybe there is someone who was born into a family in which the parents and the children have never had any problems at all: no friction, no tension, no arguments, no disappointments, no [...]

“What do you do when you have a tough decision to make?  My #1 favorite thing to do in those situations is to use the 10-10-10 rule, which has helped me find clarity every single time I’ve [...]

“Abbot Lot came to Abbot Joseph and said: Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my little fast, my prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; and according as I am [...]

“It was very effective.  Like some of you, I went to see the performance of Getting Away With Murder at the Westmoreland Players.  I didn’t know anything about the play before it started, [...]

“I have been a church nerd my entire life. Over the years I’ve read and studied scripture quite a bit, and I’ve even read the Bible cover to cover a couple of times. One of the things that [...]

“I thank God that you are here.  People have a wide variety of reasons for coming to church, from the very noble and spiritual to the very basic and mundane.  To me, though, it doesn’t [...]

“God gives us free gifts.  There are some people who would point out that the phrase “free gift” is redundant, and they’ve got a valid point.  I use the phrase anyway, though, as a way of [...]

“I love my kids.  I love being around them to experience their quirky senses of humor, to hear their views on the world.  I like seeing the ways in which they are bright and creative and [...]

We can ask, “Who sinned?”  Or we can ask, “Where can God’s works be revealed?” A mosquito is in the path of a hungry lizard.  The lizard eats it.  It’s painful for the mosquito, obviously.  But [...]

“Clergy are encouraged to keep learning new things by doing continuing education, and rightly so.  There are a wide variety of classes, conferences, and other educational programs clergy [...]