Readings for the First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Our Lord This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 11, 2026. Today is the feast day of the Baptism of Our Lord (when we baptize Theodore Alex Zheng); it is also the 12th anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood, […]
Read More Our Baptism, Belovedness and BehaviorReadings for the Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year B) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday May 5, 2024. “This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, […]
Read More The Water and the BloodReadings 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 […]
Read More Christos Anesti!Readings for the First Sunday after the Epiphany This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday January 7, 2024. Today we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord, when we read again portions from the Gospel of Mark that we heard back on the Second Sunday of Advent, when the camel-haired beast […]
Read More Baptismal Covenant Epiphanies (From Karl Barth and beyond)
DANIEL DeFOREST LONDON 