The Communion of Saints I recall once reading a children’s story about a tick who sat on a dog, and the dog lived with a family in a house, on a street, in a town, that was in the center of a county, of a certain state in our nation that is seated on the […]
Sermon Topic: Forgiveness
No Adultery
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.” After several weeks of this sermon series on the Ten Commandments, we finally get to a racy one. Of all the commandments, “no adultery” seems to be the one that garners the most contemporary discussion, and I imagine it always has. But adultery as something between husbands and wives isn’t […]
Doubt is Okay, but Beware of Magical Thinking
Alleluia. Christ is risen. Christians who attend a church dedicated to Saint Thomas should understand more than most that doubt is no danger to faith. I do not mean dogmatic doubt, the elevation of doubt to the level of conviction, so that doubt becomes, as it were, a new item in the Nicene Creed. (“I […]
Why the Lord Loves King David and Mary Magdalene
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. King David’s great sin is well known. He took beautiful Bathsheba, the wife of his faithful soldier Uriah, in adultery and conceived a child which would die. To hide his deed he tried twice in vain to get Uriah […]
The Bread of Heaven
In the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Luke, we hear that Jesus has been accused of being a glutton and a drunkard, and, frankly, it’s not hard to see why. Jesus does many things in the Gospels, of course, but we sure do hear a lot about his eating in particular. And the people […]
Be Ready for His Coming: Forgive
Jesus liked to use agricultural images. A farmer scatters seed, and then it sprouts and grows, and there’s the stalk, and then there are leaves, and then there’s the grain. And one day the grain is ripe and the farmer, until now just silent in the background, suddenly appears with his sharp blade to harvest […]
