Sermons on Salvation

Don’t Sweat the Green Goo

Joseph must have been confused and worried when he found out that his fiance was already pregnant. What was a man to do? Our lives and the socio-political changes in our world often leave us confused and worried. What are we to do?

Coming Home

God comes to us as an honored guest, making their home in our hearts until we realize that we are invited to make our homes in God’s heart.

Resurrection, here and now

What if the spiritual realm is where everything is really happening and we are living a temporary existence in which the spiritual keeps breaking though rather like a daffodil breaking through the soil in the spring? And what if resurrection has totally happened on a spiritual level and is trying to break through and manifest in our lives every moment?

Reconciled with God

The Prodigal Son is a wonderful story of the soul’s return to God, and it may also be seen as a story of how Jesus Christ, both human and God, in being reconciled to God, also reconciles human and divine. And as the ones who live into that reconciliation, how we live, think and pray changes the world.

Being Like Chicks

God’s presence is everywhere, always creating the best possible options in every situation, even in the messiness of the war in Ukraine. But it is up to humanity to use its freewill to respond to the movement of God. We can do this through prayer. Not only can we do it but we have a responsibility to pray, and also to foster serenity as we trust that God will use our prayers to bring about the best possible solutions. We are as safe as chicks under their mother’s wing.

We are mortal

Tonight we remember that we are mortal. That we are made of stardust and to dust we shall return, carbon to carbon. And why do we do this, year after year? As if our unexpected aches and pains were not enough to remind us that we are mortal!

Sin In Our Favor

Last week while on retreat, I read several books. One of them was Falling Upwards by Richard Rohr. In it he says among many other things that “salvation is sin turned on its head and used in our favor.” Salvation is sin turned on its head and used in our favor. That is what we are remembering today – the ultimate example of sin turned on its head and used in our favor. On the cross Jesus took the sin…

Saints, Heretics and Misfits

Revelation 7:9-17 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew 5:1-12 Good morning saints of God! Today, All Saints Day, is the day that we remember those who have gone before us in the reign if God – those who have formed us and made us who we are – those who have taught us and those who have shown us how to follow Jesus. And the astonishing thing is that, in the mystical communion of saints, although they are physically gone from us…