John 20:1-18
One thing I find interesting in the stories that we read from the scripture about that first Easter Day, the day of the resurrection, is that the disciples never experience what they expect in the risen Christ…
John 20:1-18
One thing I find interesting in the stories that we read from the scripture about that first Easter Day, the day of the resurrection, is that the disciples never experience what they expect in the risen Christ…
Genesis 9:8-17, Mark 1:9-15
You hear the word “covenant” in our readings today, particularly in that reading from Genesis, that covenant that there will never again be a flood. I’d love to hear that being read today in the churches of Boston…
Mark 1:21-28
Do you know people in your life, or perhaps you’ve met somebody. and they’ll say something to you and you’ll say, “Yeah, you’re right?” You just know it. Or they say something to you and you say, “I know.”…
Mark 1:14-20
Are you the kind of person who likes someone to get to the point? Did you ever have a conversation with someone and you’re like, “Get to the point!” Then you should like Mark’s gospel…
I am becoming more and more convinced in my life that we are not human beings looking for what it means to be spiritual, but rather we are spiritual beings looking for what it means to be human. That may sound like a reversal of what we usually think…
Mark 1:1-8
Today is the day we welcome St. Nicholas into our midst. He’s become an annual part of our year that we live together here at St. Paul’s. St. Nicholas will be with us in a little while. Today is also the second Sunday of Advent…
Matthew 22:15-22
A couple of months ago the committee that tends to our website wanted to put on the website brief biographies, little bios of the clergy. Each of the clergy were interviewed. One of the questions was, “What is your favorite song?”…
Matthew 21:33-46
How do we use the gifts that have been given to us? That’s really what that parable is about in the gospel reading today. The parable that Matthew has in his gospel is trying to address a community of faith that is changing and shifting…
Matthew 18:21-35
I think that Jesus had a very particular way of making friends. Or you might say a very particular way of entering into relationships with folks. That’s quite different from the way you and I enter into relationships or the way you and I make friends…
<em>Matthew 18:15-20</em>
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