Luke 2:1-14(15-20)
According to the St. Paul’s website and newsletter, Our Christmas Day Service is a quiet, contemplative service, a service of contemplation and Eucharist. At one level this is a way of saying to visitors that there will be no music, no organ, no instruments of any kind…
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…
God grant that your word only may be spoken, that your word only may be heard, for Christ’s sake, Amen. You know when we teach children about worship around here, we teach them there are five parts to worship. I won’t tell you all of them…
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…
John 1:6-8,19-28
“I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness; prepare the way of the Lord.” There is a certain tension in our culture right now. Too many deaths of black men have caught our awareness. Too swift a hand to draw a gun or to use a choke hold…
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…
Mark 13:24-37
Happy New Year! The first day of our Christian year. We like January first, don’t we? Because it’s a chance to start over and everybody’s starting over with us. We all follow the same calendar, but in the church sometimes it gets lost…
Matthew 25:31-46
“And those on his right said Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing?”…
Matthew 25:14-30
We have a certain rhythm of going down to the beach in North Carolina. Every morning when it comes time to walk our newly acquired dog, I find myself confronted by numbers of people. At this time of the year you get a lot of surf casters…
Matthew 5:1-12
So it’s All Saints Sunday. We have to celebrate the feast of All Saints on Sunday because we want you all to be here. A lot of us were mentioned in that hymn we just sang. I was glad I was the priest and not the one who was slain by a fierce wild beast…