Sermons

It is as though we [the Baptized] are not merely swimming behind our Lord, but the joy is such that we jump and leap and dive and play, rejoicing that others have chosen to follow with us in his wake.

I’m not sure I could return violence with non-violence, as did Martin Luther King Jr.. But I would love to have at least some of his courage.

And all of us who are baptized, if at times we are tempted to “settle” elsewhere, know that God is calling us to “go,” to pivot our lives toward Jesus, and to find our home with him.

This Lent I invite us to take courage from the Book of Jonah, who communicates to us the abundant and unbounded mercy of God for all.

The purpose of our Lenten disciplines is not to burden us or to make us gloomy but rather to free us to more fully know the joy and peace – the complete joy and perfect peace – of Jesus’ Passion and resurrection.