Readings for the Second Sunday of Easter (Year B) Acts 4:32-35 1 John 1:1-2:2 John 20:19-31 Psalm 133 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on April 7, 2024. As we continue our celebration of the Resurrection throughout the fifty days of Eastertide, our lectionary offers us readings from the first Epistle of […]
Read More Walking in the LightReadings for Easter Sunday (Year B) Acts 10:34-43 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Mark 16:1-8 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 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 […]
Read More Death, Be Not ProudReadings for the Fourth Sunday in Lent Numbers 21:4-9 Ephesians 2:1-10 John 3:14-21 Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 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 […]
Read More Snake-on-a-Stick SundayReadings for the First Sunday in Lent 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 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 […]
Read More Let Christ Pray in Your WildernessReadings for the Wedding of Valerie Jean Budig Markin and David Arthur Tschoepe Song of Solomon 2:10 – 13; 8:6 – 7 Psalm 67 Tobit 8:5b – 8 1 Corinthians 13:1 – 13 John 15:9 – 12 This sermon was preached at the Wedding of David and Valerie on Saturday January 20, 2024 at Christ Episcopal […]
Read More David, Valerie, and the Vena amorisThis article was written for the January 2024 Chronicle newsletter for Christ Church Eureka. This January, I begin my seventh year at Christ Church (Jan 28), and I also celebrate the 10-year anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood (Jan 11). Since I was ordained on the Eve of the Feast Day of St. Aelred of Rievaulx […]
Read More New Year Reflections On the Saint of RievaulxReadings for the First Sunday after Christmas Day Isaiah 61:10-62:3 Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7 John 1:1-18 Psalm 147 or 147:13-21 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday December 31, 2023. 800 years ago, a 41-year-old deacon travelled to the Italian town of Greccio, where he pondered the mystery of Christmas expressed in the words […]
Read More Affirming “Brother Ass”This article was written for the October 2022 Chronicle newsletter for Christ Church Eureka. This March will be the 240th anniversary of the election of the first Episcopal bishop Samuel Seabury, the namesake of one of my Yorkies. The first Anglican worship service held on American soil took place in California in 1579, but Seabury wasn’t […]
Read More Seabury and the Patriotic Practice of StewardshipReadings for the Wedding of James Winfield Hendry and Flora Lyn Klay: Song of Solomon 2:10 – 13; 8:6 – 7 Romans 8:28, 38 – 39 John 15:9 – 12 This sermon was preached at the Wedding of Jim and Lyn on Saturday January 18, 2020 at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA Abide in my love. I […]
Read More Lift Us to the Joy Divine!Readings for the Wedding of Raymond Kevin O’Connor Jr. and Wÿnanda Heyward Bulkley Armas: Song of Solomon 2:10-13; 8:6-7 Colossians 3:12-17 Matthew 5:13-16 This sermon was preached at the Wedding of Kevin and Wÿnanda on Saturday September 1, 2018 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA I speak in the Name of God the Creator, […]
Read More Salt the Earth with the Fire of Love
