Sermon: Let Us Be a Joyful People. “But let the righteous be glad, and rejoice before God; * let them also be merry and joyful.” [Psalm 68:3] In our prayer group, I was asked about the dilemma that good Christians face sooner or later in their earthly sojourn. Sometime in Read more…
Sermon: Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” [John 14:1] When I was a little boy – I believe I was in second grade – I remember talking with my friends about the end of the world. Read more…
Sermon: Listening for Our Master’s Voice. “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” [John 10:9] Today’s lesson, about fifty years ago, would not be a difficult lesson to teach. It would have been Read more…
Sermon: Being a Proper Conduit for God’s Light and Love. “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” [2 Corinthians 4:6] I am a Read more…
Sermon: Becoming True Children of Light. “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.”[Ephesians 5:8] How do we know if something is an act of God or not? After all, it is not as if God signs all His messages. Read more…
Sermon: Withstanding the Onslaught “And they said, ‘What is that to us? see thou to that.’” [Matthew 27:4b] There was a priest in a distant parish that had a wife who was well known for her charitable impulses. She would help anyone in need and did it with great kindness Read more…
Sermon: Being the True Church of Christ. “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” [St. John 3:17] Last Friday night I was not here for Evensong because I had the great joy of performing a Read more…
Sermon: Arise, and Be Not Afraid. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Read more…
Sermon: Preparing for a Holy and Fulfilling Lent. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, “Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, ‘Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.’” [Leviticus 19:1-2] Today is the start of the Read more…
Sermon: Acting Out of Love and Not Guilt. “He hath set fire and water before thee: stretch forth thy hand unto whether thou wilt.” [Ecclesiasticus 15:16] I remember reading many years ago that, when someone from the old Soviet Union immigrated to the United States, they had a very hard Read more…