“There was once a sculptor who worked hard with hammer and chisel on a large block of marble. A little child who was watching him saw nothing more than large and small pieces of stone falling away left and right. He had no idea what was happening. But when the boy returned to the studio […]
Sermon Topic: Parable of the Sower
Rocky Soil
Jesus had a parable that he taught us, about a sower who scattered his seeds, widely, not just in the places you’d expect, places like the good tilled soil where it would multiply a hundred times over, but also in thorny places where jagged vines would entangle and choke the grain as it rose to […]
The Holy Spirit in Your Heart
Saint Paul makes some extravagant claims in today’s reading from Romans about what it means to have the Holy Spirit dwelling in you. That’s (first) just the definition of a Christian: one who has the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus, within. Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus: the […]
Seed And Fire At Work In Our Hearts
Herbert McCabe and behind him Victor White, great Blackfriar Dominican theologians of the last century, were fond of latching onto the wisdom at the beginning of today’s epistle. They would note that at Romans 8:26 Saint Paul says—the great Saint Paul says!—we do not know how to pray as we ought. They would point out: […]
