Sermons

Every human action is a religious action. Modern architecture was brought to America in the 1920’s, by refugees from the German Bauhaus art school. They were the leaders of a revolution, who aspired to design homes and buildings that fostered devotion to the ideals of Marxism. It took like wild fire. Over the next several decades, skyscrapers, apartment complexes, and Christian churches across the country celebrated the new look. America was transformed. Fourteen decades earl

“Come, Creator, Spirit, come from your bright heavenly throne, come take possession of our souls, and make them all your own. You who are called the Paraclete, best gift of God above, the living spring, the vital fire sweet christ’ning. . . .O guide our minds with your best light, with love our hearts inflame; and with your strength, which ne’er decays, confirm our mortal frame.” St. Rabanus composed this hymn during the reign of Charlemagne. As a schoolmaster, abbot, and eve

“Prayer begins at the moment when, instead of thinking of a remote God, ‘He’, ‘The Almighty’, and so forth, one can think in terms of ‘Thou,’ when it is no longer a relationship in the third person but in the first and second persons’” (Metropolitan Anthony Bloom). What do you think of the Messiah? Christ asked this question to the Pharisees. How would you answer? Is the Messiah an idea to you? Is he an aloof deity in the clouds, a clockmaker, who gets the universe going and

We are called to be in the world, but not of the world. This implies that Christians actually live differently, think differently, and look differently. It also implies that the world will not like the way we are different. A true Christian lifestyle is a scandal to the world. So how should we respond when people around us think we are crazy? Just do the right thing. “On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath,