Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience, and with the comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, whichContinueContinue reading “Inwardly Digesting Jesus”
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Jesus and Stranahan’s a sermon for July 28
I was home in Colorado recently, and while there I took a tour of Stranahan’s Whisky distillery. Stranahan’s is a Scotch style American whisky, a very fine whisky. At the end of the tour, they let you sample the product, and then in a stroke of marketing genius AFTER you have sampled the productContinueContinue reading “Jesus and Stranahan’s a sermon for July 28”
Wisemen and Mad Men (an Epiphany sermon).
What star do you follow? What road do you walk? The story of the three wise men that we have today from Matthew, is strange. Three nameless travelers follow a star to kneel before the child Jesus. There is no way around the strangeness. We variously have called these characters “the wise men,” or theContinueContinue reading “Wisemen and Mad Men (an Epiphany sermon).”
San Diego Sermon: Christ to one another
As a seminarian, you get suspicious whenever you are invited to preach. I find great joy in coming home to St. Paul’s, in seeing friends and breaking bread with the community that walked with me at the start of a long process toward ordination. But as a seminarian, you have to be wary when theyContinueContinue reading “San Diego Sermon: Christ to one another”
Mike Angell 