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Collect, Readings & Livestream for June 7, 2020
Today is Trinity Sunday. The service leaflet for today is here. Readings for today: Genesis 1:1-2:4a Canticle 13 2 Corinthians 13:11-13...


Intellectual Humility
The gift of knowing that you might be wrong - this is a tough one. How can the idea of knowing that we might be wrong be a gift? As many...


Collect, Readings & Livestream for May 31, 2020
Today is Pentecost Sunday. At Christ Church, it is also Youth Sunday. Our youth help deliver the liturgy and lessons of the day, and we...


A Fly In A Margarita
It was first a text message about a sermon I preached on Pentecost Sunday, back in 2004. I honestly don’t remember the words of the...


Collect, Readings & Livestream for May 24, 2020
Today is the Seventh Sunday of Easter. The leaflet for today's service is here. Readings for today: Acts 1:6-14 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11...


Yellow Daffodils
For the past several weeks, I have been hosting Virtual Coffee Hours on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, and on some Sundays after...


Collect, Readings & Livestream for May 17, 2020
Today is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. The leaflet for today's service is here. Readings for today: Acts 17:22-31 1 Peter 3:13-22 John...


Job's Objectified Body
"You are as young as the faith you have, or as old as your own doubts. I choose to be young..."


Collect, Readings & Livestream for May 10, 2020
Today is the Fifth Sunday of Easter. The leaflet for today's service is here. Readings for today: Acts 7:55-60 1 Peter 2:2-10 John...


Are You Crazy?
I am always amazed at the folks who do walk on tightropes. The kind of balance, mental acuity, discipline, self-control, grit, and...


Collect, Readings & Sermon for May 3, 2020
Today is the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Readings for today: Acts 2:42-47 Psalm 23 1 Peter 2:19-25 John 10:1-10 The Collect of the Day: O...


Boneshaker
For those of you who have had the opportunity to visit an African country or a developing one, you may have noticed that many of the...


Collect, Readings & Sermon for April 26, 2020
Today is the Third Sunday of Easter. Readings for today: Acts 2:14a, 36-41 1 Peter 1:17-23 Luke 24:13-35 Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17 The Collect...


19 Empty Eggs
This past week children in Howard County Public School System have begun taking online classes. They started a little later than other...


Collect, Readings & Sermon for April 19, 2020
Today is the Second Sunday of Easter. Readings for Today: Acts 2:14a,22-32 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 Psalm 16 The Collect of the Day: O...


Carrots
All of our lives have been upended by COVID-19. For those of who are home and barely go out, there’s this feeling of being imprisoned in...


Collect, Readings & Sermon for Easter Sunday
Readings for today: Acts 10:34-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Colossians 3:1-4 John 20:1-18 The Collect of the Day: O God, who made this most...


Lenten Meditation: Easter
I wonder what The nonbelieving world Was like The day Before Christ died. We all know What happened After – The skies wept. I wonder If...


We're Going
There was only one television station in the whole country, and it ran about six-eight hours a day. Over the years, it increased its...
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