Readings for Easter Sunday Isaiah 25:6-9 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Mark 16:1-8 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Easter Sunday April 4, 2021 Alleluia Christ is Risen! The Lord is Risen indeed. Alleluia! Happy Easter, everyone! Ever since my first Easter here when this Great Feast of […]

Readings for the Easter Vigil (Year B) Genesis 1:1-2:4a (The Story of Creation) Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18, 8:6-18, 9:8-13 (The Flood) Exodus 14:10-31 (Israel’s deliverance at the Red Sea) Isaiah 55:1-11 (Salvation offered freely to all) Ezekiel 37:1-14 (The valley of dry bones) At the Eucharist Romans 6:3-11 Mark 16:1-8 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal […]

Readings for Holy Saturday Job 14:1-14 Psalm 31:1-5 John 19:38-42 This reflection was shared during the Holy Saturday Sacred Saunter on April 3, 2021. Today is Holy Saturday (when we remember Christ in the tomb) and it is also the feast day of St. Richard of Chichester, a 13th century English bishop. After King Henry […]

Readings for Good Friday Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Psalm 22 Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 18:1-19:42 This sermon was preached on Good Friday at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on April 2, 2021. An abbreviated version was published in the Times-Standard on April 3 as “A path toward new life and liberation” When Fr. George Leonard Shultz […]

Readings for Maundy Thursday Exodus 12:1-14 Psalm 116:1, 10-17 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-17,  31b-35 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on April 1, 2021 It’s not very often that Maundy Thursday falls on April Fool’s day as it does this year. In fact, the next time Maundy Thursday falls on the […]

Readings for the Third Sunday in Lent (Year B) Exodus 20:1-17 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22 Psalm 19 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on March 7, 2021 According to the Jewish calendar, today is my father’s yahrzeit, which is the anniversary of his death. Although he died on March 19th according […]

Readings for the Second Sunday in Lent (Year B) Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 Psalm 22:22-30 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on February 28, 2021 On January 27th, 1956, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr sat at his kitchen table late at night, anxiously sipping coffee while feeling […]

Readings for Ash Wednesday Isaiah 58:1-12 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Psalm 103 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on February 17, 2021. On this first day of Lent, Jesus describes how we fulfill the great commandment, the three-pronged summation of the Law and the Prophets: “Love God, love your neighbor, and […]

Readings for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year B) Deuteronomy 18:15-20 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28 Psalm 111 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 31, 2021 O Christ, the healer, we have come to pray for health, to plead for friends. How can we fail to be restored, when […]

Readings for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany 1 Samuel 3:1-10(11-20)Psalm 139:1-5, 12-171 Corinthians 6:12-20John 1:43-51 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday January 17, 2021. Last Sunday, I began my sermon with a quote from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only love can do that. Hate […]