Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Jesus and Peter walking on the water. I know I already talked about the movie Bruce Almighty last week, but I can’t help but think of the scene where God, played by Morgan Freeman, walks on water with Bruce, played by Jim Carrey, while he explains to Bruce the rules when handing over his divine powers.
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
In the moment of the great crowd’s deepest need, great hunger, through Jesus, God provided what the people needed, with leftovers. God not only provided enough. God provided abundantly. Although the people and even the disciples doubted, Jesus had faith that God would provide. And God came through, as God always does when we believe.
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Gene Robinson had potential. Katherine Jefferts Schori had potential. Elizabeth Eaton hat potential. Michael Curry had potential. Yehiel Curry had potential. Sean Rowe had potential. Sarah Mullally had potential. We have potential.
7th Sunday After Pentecost
Carlos’s experience in that village in Mexico where he was accepted, clothed, and taken care of, despite being naked and covered in tattoos, opened his heart to be good soil for God’s love.
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6th Sunday After Pentecost
Maybe we are holding onto unnecessary piles of physical stuff at home. Maybe we are holding onto unnecessary negative spiritual energy. Maybe it is both. Whatever our burdens, whatever we are holding onto that is not serving us, God is ready and happy to take it from us. We just have to hand it over.
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5th Sunday after Pentecost
It can make a world of difference when some folks who are already a part of the community go out of their way to show us hospitality.
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4th Sunday After Pentecost
May we be filled with such powerful faith and respect for God, that we overcome our own fears, and step courageously into the lives of discipleship that God has planned for us, that your kin-dom come, your will be done, here on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.
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3rd Sunday After Pentecost
When we feel like the prowling wolves are too powerful, like we are powerless sheep without a shepherd, let us remember the power of Jesus’ love that lives in us. Let us remember the power of soul-force, the force of the love of God that lives within us. Through soul-force, when we are “wise as serpents and innocent as doves,” the fake sheep’s clothing of the wolves is exposed, the wolves are exposed for who they are, the systems of domination are undermined, and the Reign of God shines forth. May it be so, that your kin-dom come, your will be done, here on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.
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2nd Sunday after Pentecost
Both the story of Jesus eating with the outcast and healing the sick and unclean are stories of Jesus healing broken relationships, which is at the heart of Jesus' ministry.
A Trinitarian Farewell
Making disciples of all nations was a political statement in a particular context. What might making disciples of all nations mean to St. Aidan’s, in our context?Preach the gospel of love. Make disciples who will protect the vulnerable. Welcome everyone: noisy children, people who speak other languages, people who have been shunned by churches they grew up in, immigrants, people who will stretch you. Welcome them, protect them, be transformed by them. The world does not need more church-goers. The world needs more people with hearts transformed by Jesus’ vision of a kingdom where all are welcome and all are fed.