Homily for the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
Though we might think of him as the “nice guy” evangelist who tells beloved, seemingly-benign stories, such as that of the Good Samaritan, Luke hits us right where we can feel it...
Homily for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
When I was in fourth grade, my parents enrolled me in the local Catholic school. The funny thing was that I wasn’t Catholic. But the parochial system offered a better education than the public schools. If I had any doubt about that, it was made abundantly clear on my first day when I simply couldn’t keep up with all of the other kids shouting...
Homily for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Though one might think that pledging is not about zeal for Christ and the Gospel and more about maintaining an institution, Paul’s letters suggest otherwise. The later letters say almost nothing about giving money to God and God’s work...
Homily for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
At first glance, today’s Gospel story of Jesus healing the ten lepers might look less like a specifically Christian teaching and more like a morality tale. While Luke is a master story teller, and though Luke’s stories often do have a readily-grasped teaching or moral, to regard Luke merely as a gifted teller of moral stories is to underestimate Luke...
Homily for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
In the scriptures, grandmothers are exceedingly rare. Today’s epistle tells of the New Testament’s only-known grandmother. In his second letter to Timothy, Paul writes...
Most of the homilies are given by the Rector, the Rev. Todd L. Miller. All others are delivered by homilists as noted. Please consider coming to Trinity some Sunday for a visit!