The heart of today’s Gospel concerns Jesus’ casting out a demon. I’ll be honest: I was tempted to tiptoe around the exorcism. Exorcism is tricky to preach on, especially for Episcopalians. We don’t generally go in for that exorcism business, especially not at a place like St. John’s Lafayette Square. Exorcism, we all know itContinueContinue reading “Demons and Georgetown… a sermon for Epiphany IV”
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Grasping and Kenosis Sermon from August 25
Take out your bulletins, and if you have a pen or a pencil, there may be some in your pews, I want you to find a particular word in the reading from Paul’s letter to the Philippians. It is about halfway through our reading, just after the page turn. The word you are looking forContinueContinue reading “Grasping and Kenosis Sermon from August 25”
Surely God is in the place, and I didn’t realize. Sermon from July 17, 2011
Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place—and I did not know it!” Jacob’s story today is a claim of sacred geography. “Surely God is in this place.” The claim is surprising. God is in the “place,” the “holy place,” of people of Haran, not followers of theContinueContinue reading “Surely God is in the place, and I didn’t realize. Sermon from July 17, 2011”
Seeing Christ in One Another: The Assembly and Worship
I wrote recently about the experience of worshiping this year in temporary space because of the chapel fire. One of the biggest blessings for me in this time has been directional. Our old Chapel was set up, like most Episcopal Churches, so that the entire assembly faced one direction. Before the changes instituted by theContinueContinue reading “Seeing Christ in One Another: The Assembly and Worship”
Mike Angell 