
The Fifth Sunday of Lent: How Do We Live?
Send us Fan Mail "The real question is how do we live, knowing that grief, death, and loss are part of the story? text: John 11:1-45 preached for Church of the Resurrection, Hopewell Junction, NY

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Send us Fan Mail "The real question is how do we live, knowing that grief, death, and loss are part of the story? text: John 11:1-45 preached for Church of the Resurrection, Hopewell Junction, NY

Send a text "The question before us is not what we will give up, but what kind of human being we will choose to be." text:Matthew 4:1-11 preached with All Saints Episcopal Church, Manhattan on February 22, 2026

Send a text "What is so interesting to me in this is that surrounded by needs, and wants and longings, Jesus looks at his weird and wonderful congregation and doesn’t tell them to get something, or to become something or

Send a text "We cannot expect our religion to save us if we do not remember our relationship with God and take seriously God’s desire for justice." Text: Micah 6:1-8, Matthew 5:1-12 preached for St Ignatius of Antioch, M

Send a text "There are things that we will never know. That can be discouraging, but it can also be motivating... I don't love it. I don't love this idea that we will never know. But this is how we begin our Advent seaso

Send a text "We submit to God’s power by refusing to harm each other. We obey God’s power by rejecting the pressures of our world to punish, to win, or to control any part of God’s created world." text: Luke 23:33-43 pre

Send a text "We meet the mother of Jesus in this gospel not when she gives birth to his physical body, but when she gives birth to his ministry, at the wedding in Cana. The first time we see Jesus mother in John is at th

Send a text " In this last night with his disciples before his big showdown with the Empire Jesus does not tease them, or intimidate them, or reassure them with a show of strength, or sign of power. Instead God incarnate

Send a text "Today Jesus gets to sit and eat with the people who mean the most to him. These are friends who have walked with him for the past three years, who have loved him through everything. Martha, Mary, Lazarus, hi

Send a text " I suppose I have some things in common with the elder son in this morning's gospel lesson. Whenever I encounter this parable I find myself feeling the most empathy for him – out there in the field fuming an

Send a text "Maybe this is how we all perish, friends. By living as if we can earn love and favor from God by just being better than, or separate from, other people." text: Luke 13:1-9 preached for St. Paul's Staten Isla

Send a text "My least favorite version of the multi-verse is the one it feels like we are living in right now. It feels like people in our country are living in different universes from each other. I look at the world an

Send a text "How do we know who we are? How do we know what that means? One way is through reflection on scripture, and participation in worship – liturgies like this one, the First Sunday in Lent, where we encounter our

Send a text "This child is God, come to be with us in the midst of all our brokenness, in the midst of every deep dark sadness, in the midst of oppression and danger and heartache and despair. Jesus is with us. The child

Send a text "It has been said that every preacher only has one sermon. The one core value that will show up in some way in every sermon she preaches. This morning we hear Jesus’ one sermon. In everything he says and does

Send a text "This epiphany season we are invited to imagine a God whose grace doesn’t need a reason to flow, a world where the waters of baptism flow into the wine of our feast without needing a broken body in between. T

Send a text "There is no one ritual that can make you perfect or worthy or whole, but there is one God who loves you enough to be with you – who shows up over and over in ordinary ways, through ordinary moments, and ever

Send a text "What is interesting to me is not that some people leave Jesus here when things get real. What is interesting is that some of them stay. Jesus lays out the reality – following him is about to get hard, they w

Send a text “ for us, for Christians, there is no choosing the spiritual over the physical. Christians do not get to pick and choose what a life to experience and what to escape, and we are not called to anywhere but whe

Send a text “ We tend to think that belief means intellectual assent, or factual certainty. So if you hear that you need to believe in God, and in Jesus, you might think that you need to come to intellectual certainty ab
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