Taming Our Wild Beasts (Sermon on St. Mark and the Noahic Covenant)

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 […]

Teach Us to Sit Still (Ash Wednesday Sermon)

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 care / Teach us to sit still.” In the Gospel reading for Ash Wednesday, Jesus invites us […]

Seeing the Transfiguration in All of Us

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 […]

Finding Our Place of Prayerful Silence and Solitude (Ereymon Topon)

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 […]

Finding Our Authority in God’s Healing Love

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 […]

Evangelizing in God’s First Language

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 […]

Prayers for Redeemer

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 […]

Playing Our Drum For Him (Christmas Eve Sermon 2017)

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 […]

The Episcopal Namaste

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 […]

The Soft Animal Sermon

Readings for the Third Sunday of Advent (Year B) Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 Canticle 15 This sermon was preached by Fr. Daniel London at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in San Rafael CA on December 17, 2017. I’d like to begin this sermon with a poem from a book I […]