Mark 3:20-35
When my sister and I were little we loved watching westerns on TV. It’s been so long now that I can’t remember what show we were watching, but one of the older cowboys was whittling and was making a toy horse…

John 20: 19-31
It will be ten years ago next month that I was ordained as a vocational deacon right here in St. Paul’s. I was so thrilled and in awe I could be serving God in such a way and I still am…

John 13:1-17, 31b-35
I must admit that when asked to do the homily for tonight I was a bit perplexed to come up with a new angle, so to speak. I have done a homily for Maundy Thursday many times…

John 3:14-21
When I was in marketing many years ago working on newspaper, radio, and TV ads, we were always hoping to come up with a catch phrase that people would remember…

Luke 1:26-38
Well, here we are, the fourth Sunday in Advent. For the last month we have been preparing, we have been waiting, and our wait is almost over. During this time we anticipate Jesus’ coming knowing that Christ is already in our midst…

Matthew 14:13-21
I recently attended a concert at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre which is a huge outdoor venue. I have been there many times over the years, sometimes sitting the lawn and other times sitting under the roofed end section…

Matthew 10:40-42
I’ve often mentioned that I’m a late bloomer, and I’ve often shared that I met my husband Craig at Penn State. We got married after my sophomore year and at the end of Craig’s senior year. It had been my great hope to finish college…

Matthew 27:57-66
Here we have Matthew’s story of the empty tomb and there is something most fitting in that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary should be the first to receive the news of the Risen Lord and to encounter Him. They had been there at the cross, they had been there when he was laid in the tomb, and now they were the first to know the joy of the resurrection…

John 11:1-3,7,17,20-45
I think we’ve all heard the story of Lazarus many times in our lives. Ironically, this account only appears in John’s gospel. Matthew, Mark, and Luke do not mention it at all. And you can imagine that biblical scholars all have different suppositions of why this is. But that’s not my focus this morning…

Matthew 3:13-17
Some of us were baptized as babies and don’t remember a thing about it. Others of us were older and do remember quite well how it felt to be welcomed into the household of God. I was an infant, so it was up to my parents and godparents to speak on my behalf…