Death, Be Not Proud

Readings for Easter Sunday (Year B) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Easter Sunday March 31, 2024. Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! Christos anesti! Alithos anesti! Christus surréxit! Surréxit vere! Alleluia! Easter Sunday is the day that gives meaning to all other days. Without Easter, there […]

Christos Anesti!

Readings for the Easter Vigil (Year B) Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21 [Israel’s deliverance at the Red Sea] Isaiah 55:1-11 [Salvation offered freely to all] Proverbs 8:1-8; 19-21; 9:4b-6 [Learn wisdom and live] Ezekiel 36:24-28 [A new heart and a new spirit] Zephaniah 3:14-20 [The gathering of God’s people] Romans 6:3-11Psalm 114Mark 16:1-8 Our readings tonight remind […]

Good Friday & Beeswax candles

Readings for Good Friday Genesis 22:1-18 Psalm 22 Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 19:1-37 This sermon was preached on Good Friday at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on March 29, 2024. We use beeswax candles at out Peace Altar, the altar that we set up two years ago when we began praying for the people of Ukraine. […]

Why do we Say “Hosanna”?

This lesson was shared during Joy Mass at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Palm Sunday (March 24, 2024). Today is Palm Sunday, the first Sunday of Holy Week, a week celebrated by Christians since the early 4th century to commemorate the final week of Jesus’s life as he entered Jerusalem, where he was […]

Angel or Thunder?

Readings for the Fifth Sunday in Lent This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday March 17, 2024. May I speak in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. It is a humble and daunting task indeed to pray that I might preach in the name of God, to […]

Snake-on-a-Stick Sunday

Readings for the Fourth Sunday in Lent This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday March 10, 2024. “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” There’s a Facebook meme that comes around during […]

The Courage of Betty Chinn

This paragraph was written for The Episcopal Diocese of Northern California’s Beloved Community Resource Newsletter published by The Commission for Intercultural Ministries – February 18, 2024 Special Edition. Inspired by Betty Kwan Chinn, Rev. Daniel has addressed the role of Christ Church in the Chinese expulsion in Eureka in the late 19th century and engaged in […]

Let Christ Pray in Your Wilderness

Readings for the First Sunday in Lent This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday February 18, 2024. On this First Sunday in Lent, we pick up our reading in Mark’s Gospel right where we left off, way back on the Second Sunday of Advent (almost two months ago!), when we read about […]

The Rhythm of God’s Healing Love: Rector’s Report on 2023

Readings for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday February 4, 2024. There’s a rhythm to the healing ministry of Christ revealed right away in the first chapter of Mark’s Gospel, where we read about Jesus first worshiping with his disciples in the synagogue, then healing, and […]

The Name That Charms Our Fears

Readings for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday January 28, 2024. Six years ago today, I preached on these same readings on my first Sunday here, readings that proclaim the holy and awesome and life-giving power of God’s Name and the Name of Jesus Christ […]