O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, […]

Readings for the First Sunday in Lent (Year B) Genesis 9:8-17 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 Psalm 25:1-9 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on February 18, 2018  “He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts.” … It is probably because […]

Readings for Ash Wednesday This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on February 14, 2018. Upon his conversion to Anglicanism, T. S. Eliot wrote a long poem about trees and gardens and growth titled “Ash Wednesday” in which he repeats this short yet slightly enigmatic prayer: “Teach us to care and not to […]

Readings for the Last Sunday after the Epiphany (Year B) 2 Kings 2:1-12 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 Psalm 50:1-6 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on February 11, 2018. About 1700 years ago, a Roman emperor imprisoned a kind-hearted priest for secretly conducting weddings for young Christian couples. The emperor […]

Readings for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany (Year B) Isaiah 40:21-31 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 Psalm 147:1-12, 21c This sermon was preached by Fr. Daniel London at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA and at Sts. Martha & Mary parochial mission in Trinidad CA on February 4, 2018. In our Gospel reading today, Jesus continues […]

  Readings for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany (Year B) Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Psalm 111 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 28, 2018.   Expectations were great for the Jewish Messiah. The Messiah was expected to raise an army that would defeat all of Israel’s […]

Readings for the Third Sunday after Epiphany (Year B) Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Psalm 62:6-14 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Mark 1:14-20 This sermon was preached at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Crockett CA on January 21, 2018.  For God alone my soul in silence waits; truly, my hope is in him. The great evangelist, the Rev. Billy Graham tells […]

Readings for the First Sunday after Christmas Isaiah 61:10-62:3 Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7 John 1:1-18 Psalm 147 or 147:13-21 These prayers were shared at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in San Rafael on Sunday December 31, 2017 On this last day of 2017, which is also my next-to-last Sunday here with you, I want to […]

Readings for Christmas Eve (Section I): Isaiah 9:2-7 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-14(15-20) Psalm 96 This sermon was preached at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in San Rafael CA on Sunday December 24, 2017 “We come, as people have come all through the ages, to bring our own gifts to this Child, God’s gift to […]

Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year B) 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 Canticle 15 Romans 16:25-27 Luke 1:26-38 This sermon was preached by Fr. Daniel London at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in San Rafael CA on December 24, 2017. One of the first things I picked up from the Episcopal Church was […]