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Why not??
Philippians 4:1-9 OK, it is true confession time: How many of you have something that Steve Jobs… [more]
Define yourself …
Philippians 3:4b-14 Who are you? Who are you? How do you define yourself? When I was a child,… [more]
You are invited to the dance … whatchya gonna do?
The keynote address at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, College Park, Md., at their Homecoming Dinner, 10… [more]
Occupy God!
Luke 2:1-20 In the summer of 1992, I was blessed to go to the Barcelona Olympics, to serve as an editor at that great sporting and cultural events. To do my job properly, I had to lug along one whole extra suitcase filled with reference books [...]
Suck it up! Deal with it!
Mark 1:1 Good old Mark – he never misses a chance to beat us over the head with the obvious, does he? I once sat in a theology class with one of the most respected theologians of the Church, Bishop Mark Dyer, shortly after he came to Virginia Seminary. “The beginning of the Good News [...]
Now thank we all our God …
In the early 1600s, Europe was torn asunder by the Thirty Years’ War, a war that began because of religious intolerance between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire and devolved into a power play involving most of the European powers. It was one of [...]
Tales from the communion of saints …
Today is All Saints’ Sunday, the day when we celebrate the saints of God who have gone before us, the saints of God who are among us still, and the saints of God that we hope to be. And what better way to celebrate the saints than to tell stories about them? Our first story [...]
Why not??
Philippians 4:1-9 OK, it is true confession time: How many of you have something that Steve Jobs created? … How many of you have something that Steve Jobs created? iTunes? An iPod? An iPhone? An iMac? A MacBook? An iPad? Isn’t it amazing how ubiquitous those little things are? In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to [...]
Define yourself …
Philippians 3:4b-14 Who are you? Who are you? How do you define yourself? When I was a child, back in the ‘60s (and yes, I’m telling you my age now) we used to define ourselves by our ethnicity … who was Irish, who was Italian, who was French, who was English. And while we might [...]