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To listen to this sermon, click the link above. As we lighted the candles this morning, we finally got to light the rose-colored candle, in keeping with the rose-colored vestments that we use for this day. We use this rose… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click the link above: Today we begin the second week of Advent, the second week of bending our focus and our energy on the coming of Christ, not only in the past, God born among… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click the link below: Today the Church celebrates the beginning of a new year, as we begin the season of Advent. It’s no accident that Advent comes at the darkest time of the year, because… Continue reading

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to listen to this sermon, click the link below Let’s use our imaginations to take a little vacation. Imagine we are walking the busy streets of New York City in the company of Jesus on a beautiful day in July.… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click the link above. One of the things that really bugged people about Jesus was his propensity for hanging out with sinners. Over and over again, he’d go out for dinner and drinks with tax… Continue reading

People who haven’t been around children very much often think that children have short attention spans. But anyone who has had children knows that children can have a very, very, VERY long and tenacious attention span. It’s usually us grownups… Continue reading

Carroll recently told me about an experiment he did in his Middle School science class. It’s a demonstration of how an electrical circuit works. It just takes a few people, a source, like a battery (nothing dangerously powerful) and something… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The disciples, Peter, and James, and John, and the rest, lived and walked and worked with Jesus for three years. When Jesus touched a leper (which, for the record, nobody does)… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click the link above. There is a story that Carroll and I find amusing, about friends we knew in St. Louis years ago, a couple, Chuck and Teresa Schmidt. They were young – we were… Continue reading