Fulfilling Our Mission: Christ Church Eureka Rector’s Report on 2018

Readings for the Third Sunday after Epiphany Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a Luke 4:14-21 Psalm 19 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 27, 2019. In our Gospel reading this morning, Jesus shares the mission statement for his entire ministry: “to bring good news to the poor, to proclaim […]

Mary, Martin, and the Creatively Maladjusted

Readings for the Second Sunday after Epiphany Isaiah 62:1-5 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 John 2:1-11 Psalm 36:5-10 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 20, 2019. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”[1] By “creatively maladjusted” he meant those who refuse […]

God’s Love Made Flesh in the Sacraments

Readings for the First Sunday after Epiphany: the Baptism of Our Lord Isaiah 43:1-7 Acts 8:14-17 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Psalm 29 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 13, 2019. In her spiritual memoir titled Strength for the Journey, Episcopal author Diana Butler Bass describes some of her experience as a […]

God’s Glory Discovered in the Disruptions

Readings for the Feast of the Epiphany Isaiah 60:1-6 Ephesians 3:1-12 Matthew 2:1-12 Psalm 72:1-7,10-14 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 6, 2019. I’m sure we all know those days when we wake up and make a plan to accomplish all the tasks on our long to-do list and even […]