Abide

Readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year B) Acts 8:26-40 Psalm 22:24-30 1 John 7:21 John 15:1-8 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on April 29, 2018. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, […]

The Good Shepherd’s Pastoral Theodicy

Readings for Good Shepherd Sunday (the Fourth Sunday of Easter – Year B) Acts 4:5-12 1 John 3:16-24 John 10:11-18 Psalm 23 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday April 22, 2018. In 1940, Anglican author and apologist C.S. Lewis wrote a book titled The Problem of Pain, which addresses the question […]

Divine Method in the Madness of Forgiveness

Readings for the Third Sunday of Easter (Year B) Acts 3:12-19 Psalm 4 1 John 3:1-7 Luke 24:36b-48 This sermon was preached by Fr. Daniel London at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA and at Sts. Martha & Mary parochial mission in Trinidad on April 15, 2018. Three days after our upcoming Celebration of New Ministry […]

Opening Our Doors to Doubt

Readings for the Second Sunday of Easter (Year B) Acts 4:32-35 Psalm 133 1 John 1:1-2:2 John 20:19-31 This sermon was preached by Fr. Daniel London at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on April 8, 2018. One of the first things I learned about Episcopalians is that they don’t ask people to leave their brains […]

Touching the Risen Christ, the Door to Heaven (Easter Sunday Sermon)

Readings for Easter Day (Year B) Acts 10:34-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 John 20:1-18 This sermon was preached by Fr. Daniel London at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on April 1, 2018. This year, since our great Feast of the Resurrection falls on April Fool’s day, I feel invited to begin my sermon […]

Easter Vigil Sermon by St. John Chrysostom

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, there is a tradition of reading the Paschal homily of St. John Chrysostom on the first Eucharist of the Easter season. John Chrysostom was the Archbishop of Constantinople back in the 4th and 5th centuries; and he earned the name “Chrysostom” which means “golden-mouthed” because of his eloquence in preaching. […]