As we recognize Jesus’s ascension today - 40 days from recalling his resurrection - I’m once again profoundly struck by the fact that...

By now you’re probably aware that Jesus’s parables have a much deeper meaning than the literal story you read or hear. Today we have a...

Let me cut right to the chase here. The real miracle that we hear about in our Gospel reading this morning isn’t that Jesus was able to...

“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Holy Spirit intercedes with...

In the Western tradition, following Augustine, the parable of the wheat and the weeds has been applied to the church -- what Augustine...

The other week I was talking to a colleague of mine who had served in parishes that either closed shortly after he left, or that he had...

In our reading from Romans this morning we hear Paul say that the promise that Abraham would inherit the world did not come through the...

I like our Gospel reading this morning because it makes my job easy! Dear Christians: as you have received the love of God in your own...

I remember my first Ascension Sunday at church followed by a Bible study where I got to ask questions of my priest. I came to church with...

Last week I told you that I’m not a big fan of street preachers because they start from a place of contempt rather than love. Yes, they...

When you think about explaining who Jesus is to say a friend or a family member, how would you describe him? Okay, now if someone says,...

As you know, I was at my parent’s place in Windsor these last few weeks expecting that I’d be getting a surgery and then recovering...

What a year it has been my friends. Recall that last Easter, we celebrated Jesus’s resurrection with the addition of one more member to...

Who here has ever fallen in love? I want you to think back for a moment – remember those first inklings that there was something unique...

This morning we hear once again, of Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem where he asks his disciples to go and bring him a colt. Jesus’s entry...

“Lord if you were here, my brother wouldn’t have died,” Mary and Martha of Bethany both exclaim to Jesus. These two sisters, we hear in...

I remember this moment during my master’s degree where I was struggling to understand why certain professors thought I should pursue...

In our Gospel reading this morning Jesus reveals what I’d say is the climax of the Christian faith: “For God so loved the world that he...

In our Gospel from Matthew this morning, Jesus is led by the Holy Spirit out into the wilderness where he is tempted by Satan. Now any...

As we begin our journey to the cross this year, reflecting the ways in which we fall short of the glory God desires for us, let us...