Sermon on Eternal Life and Living Like Liberace With Your Mom and Her Friends...
Jesus said to them, 7Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. When I was in my twenties and totally out of control and pretty much estranged from my...
View Article“This teaching is HARD, who can accept it”– a sermon on the Eucharist
NBW Sermon 8-26-2012 <CLICK HERE to listen along. Sermons are a spoken event!! In the last couple weeks, many of us here have been lucky enough to see a musical called The Book of Mormon. It’s an...
View ArticleSometimes It Hurts; a Sermon on Healing
NBW sermon 9-9-12 <——-click here to listen along. Sermons are a spoken act. 31Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the...
View ArticleSermon for the ordination of Matthew Nickoloff
Matthew was the Vicar (seminary intern) for 14 months at House for All Sinners and Saints and this past Thursday I was honored to preach at his ordination. He is planting a church now in Rochester,...
View ArticleParking Day Eucharist
Tomorrow (Friday Sept 21st) House for All Sinners and Saints will be participating in Parking Day www.parkingday.org , a day when the people take over metered parking spaces as community space. We will...
View ArticleSermon on Snot-nosed Children, Insecurity and The Lap of God
NBW sermon 9-23-2012 <——click here to listen along. (sermons are a spoken art form) A couple days ago I called my friend Kae so we could talk about this Gospel reading where Jesus takes a child in...
View ArticleA sermon on hacking off our own limbs for Jesus.
Mark 9:42-48 “If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into...
View ArticleGetting Jesus to Do Whatever You Ask of Him (and other ways you can’t avoid...
10-21-12 NBW Sermon <—–click here to listen to the sermon (that’s what makes it “preaching”) This might seem weird to you, but I don’t always get what I want. And a year and a half ago, as many of...
View ArticleSermon on Why the Gospel is More Wizard of Oz-y than the Law
10-28-2012 NBW Sermon <—-click here to listen along. The difference between listening to a sermon and reading a sermon is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing a bullet. Happy...
View ArticleSermon on walls and hope and the Abraham Mosque
11-18-2012 NBW HFASS Sermon<——Click here to listen along I recently read that there is literally a psychological disorder called “Jerusalem syndrome” in which people returning from visiting the...
View ArticleSermon on Thanksgiving at Pontius Pilate’s Mom’s House and Where We Belong
Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” 34Jesus answered, “Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?” 35Pilate replied,...
View ArticleCreating Memories in an Advent Waiting Room
The Spanish courtyard outside our worship space has been turned into an Advent Waiting Room for the next 4 weeks, a sign on the door simply saying “Please wait to be called”. Little white lights glow...
View ArticlePregnant old ladies and other signs that God’s story is better than the one...
12-9-2012 NBW Sermon <—–Click here to listen along. Seriously. I beg you. Sermons are meant to be heard and not read. A few years ago, when Roxanne was new to this church, I asked her what she...
View ArticleSermon on Pirates in the Nativity and How God Incarnates the Impossible Among...
And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing will be impossible with God.’ Then Mary said, ‘Here...
View ArticleSermon on Spiritual Gifts (which, unfairly, doesn’t include snarkyness)
1_20_2013 NBW Sermon-1 <—–click here to listen along. Sermons are a spoken event. Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 4Now there are varieties...
View ArticleSermon on Baptism and the Devil
2013-1-27 NBW Sermon <—-click here to listen along. In the church of my childhood it was taught that the “age of accountability” was somewhere around 12. To hit the age of accountability was to,...
View ArticleAsh Wednesday Sermon: The Crap We Give Our Hearts To
Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Today we begin a 40 day period of wilderness...
View ArticleSermon: One More Year for Figs and Manure
2013-3-3 NBW Sermon <—-Click here to listen along. I swear it makes more sense to hear it than to simply read it. Well, it’s parable day again boys and girls. And boy do we have a weird one. Today...
View ArticleSermon: The Parable of the Prodigal Father
2013-03-10 NBW Sermon <—-click here to listen along. Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This...
View ArticlePalm Sunday Sermon About Morbid Reflection, Home Perms and Fickle Crowds
2013-03-24 NBW Sermon <—click here to listen along. Here we go. It’s Palm Sunday – the beginning of Holy Week. The day we remember Jesus’ so-called triumphal entry into Jerusalem. And once again, I...
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