We come today to the great Feast of the Ascension of the Lord, which sheds so much light on who we are as Christians and what we are supposed to be about as a Church. I want to focus on the Ascension from two perspectives: the “political” and the liturgical. Both are very important to understand what it means to speak of the Ascension of Jesus.
Dec 2024
Freeing Your Family for God
Friends, I always love preaching on the Feast of the Holy Family because I think the biblical message here is very surprising. We say the Bible is associated with family values, and indeed it is, but they're probably not the ones we would automatically think of. We see this in th ... Show More
15m 12s
Mar 24
God Enters Into Our Darkness
Friends, we come now to Palm Sunday, also called “Passion Sunday” because we read, in its entirety, one of the Passion narratives from the Synoptic Gospels. This year, we hear Matthew’s version, and one of the distinctive qualities of Matthew’s account is his stress on Judas—and ... Show More
15m 32s
Jan 2024
All Glory Be To Christ Our King
We find ourselves in the space between the coming of Jesus and the return of Jesus. In light of this, how are we to live today? As we close out another year, reflecting on what has been, we look toward the horizon of a new year, while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, always being ... Show More
48m 9s