Sermons

Grace to you and peace from God our Creator, from our Risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and from our Sustainer, the Holy Spirit. Amen. “The kingdom of heaven is like…” A minister dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates all decked out in clerics and robes. Ahead of him is a regular…

Grace to you and peace from God our Creator, from our Risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and from our Sustainer, the Holy Spirit. Amen He was a crook.  He was a con man.  He was a cheat, and he was on the run. He was scared for his life.  His story is worth telling repeatedly…

Grace to you and peace from God our Creator, from our Risen Lord and Savior, and from our Sustainer, the Holy Spirit. Amen. “Let anyone with ears listen!” About a year and a half ago, I experienced the great joy and honor of baptizing my precious granddaughter, Edith when she was just a couple of months…

Grace to you and peace from God our Creator, from our Risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and from our Sustainer, the Holy Spirit.  Amen Jesus says this to you and me, 28Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and…

Grace to you and peace from God our Creator, from our Risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and from our Sustainer, the Holy Spirit. Amen. “A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master…so have…

There’s so much going on here today! #1. The Dwiggins/de Lima family from Holy Trinity– Kate and David, Marley, Henry and Alice are representing all of us this morning at a booth at Pride Fest here in Easton.  They are handing out gender pronoun buttons, information about Holy Trinity, and invitations to a special worship service…

Photo by Taras Chuiko, Unsplash “In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.” “Then God said, ‘Let there be light, and there was light!’”  Do you hear…

Grace to you and peace from God our Creator, from our Risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and from our Sustainer, the Holy Spirit.  Amen. 1When the day of Pentecost had come, [the apostles] were all together in one place. 2And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the…

The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, the 24th chapter. Glory to you, O Lord. 44[Jesus said to the eleven and those with them,] “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”45Then he…

The Holy Gospel according to Saint John, the 14th chapter. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus said to the disciples:] 15“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because…

Grace to you and peace from God our Creator, from our Risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and from our Sustainer, the Holy Spirit. Amen. This morning I’d like to tell you the stories of two men – two men who lived thousands of years apart.  Their names are Jordan and Steven. First let me you…

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. In a thicket of trees between two vast farm fields, a plywood trapdoor built into the forest floor opened to reveal stairs leading underground. Inside was a subterranean bunker, cut into the black earth, where Ukrainian troops from a…

I invite you to engage your imaginations… 13Now on that same day small group was going to a village called Easton, about 30 miles south of Boston, 14and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 15While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, 16but their eyes were kept from…

I was worried about Tony who is a little boy in our congregation. His grandmother told me the Good Friday service really upset him.  The somber, dark tone.  The terrible and frightening narrative of what happened to Jesus that day.  The meanness, the brutality – a story of murder and betrayal.  It was all too much,…

One sign said, “Thoughts and prayers are not enough.”  Another sign said, “Am I next?”  Another sign said, “We just want to live through high school.”  These are signs carried by young protestors in Nashville, Tennessee following yet another mass school shooting at a Christian school that took the lives of three nine year olds, Hallie,…