Rules Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Depending upon your history, this may seem like a strange remark for me to make, but I love monasteries. The rhythm of work, rest, worship, and play appeals to me. There is a female community out near Crozet...
Mary’s Morning John 20: 1-18 It was dark like it was when we started out this morning. Mary’s route wasn’t as steep but her grief was. Steep. She didn’t know where else to go and it seemed somehow like the last place they put...
Christian Discipline: Prayer Mark 11: 1-11 and Mark 14: 32-36 The first time I visited the women’s prison in Fluvanna I learned a lot about prayer. Maybe that comes as a surprise and maybe it doesn’t. People have all kinds of perceptions and misperceptions...
God Wants the Bones Back Ezekiel 37: 1-14 Tonight I want to talk to you about vision and how our vision and God’s vision aren’t always the same. I want to talk to you about how God touches us and makes dry bones live....
Christian Discipline: Keeping Sabbath Exodus 20: 1-17 Here’s what I can tell you right off the bat: In this familiar passage of 10 commandments, keeping the Sabbath is the only one that warrants four verses of its own. The most any other commandment gets...
Yielding Matthew 6: 1-6, 16-21 Ash Wednesday Last Sunday Elizabeth talked about the legendary preaching professor at the Candler School of Theology, Fred Craddock. She said that he often advised using the form of the text to find your way in to the form...
Healing Mark 1: 40-45 People do peculiar things when they are in need of healing. One of my friends lost her partner a few years back. It was an abrupt and completely unexpected death at a very young age and we were all reeling....
“To A Deserted Place” Mark 1: 29-39 There is a lot going on in this scripture from Mark but tonight I want to focus on just two verses. I want us to spend some time with verses 35 and 36. First some context. Mark’s...
Everyday Callings Mark 1: 14-20 Here’s what I want to know: Were their nets full? Simon and Andrew were out there on the Sea of Galilee, like everyday, casting nets, waiting a minute or two while they floated to the bottom, then hauling in...
