Exodus 20:1-17 The Form of Freedom March 11, 2012 The Third Sunday of Lent In his book, Standing by Words, the poet Wendell Berry, makes the well-known argument that form without freedom is oppression, while freedom without form is chaos. One might think he is...
February 19, 2012 Transfiguration Sunday Mark 9.2-9 The first thing Roy W. Howard The first thing we have to say in all honesty is we don’t know what actually happened on that mountaintop with Jesus and his three disciples. We do know what the gospels tell us – Jesus...
Mark 1.4-11 Marked for life January 8, 2012 Baptism of the Lord It wasn’t the only thing that marked Harry Potter but it was the one thing that he couldn’t hide; unless, of course, he put on his invisibility cloak, but that came much later. At his birth, Harry was...
Matthew 25.31-46 A holy haunting November 13, 2011 The Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time There are many passages in scripture that will haunt you for a long time when you allow them to get under your skin but none more than this one. Why is that? Well, for one if...
Matthew 22.34-40 what love has to do with giving October 23, 2011 – The 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Listen to This Sermon | Download MP3 You would laugh at me if I said the Beatles had it right when they sang, all you need is love. So I won’t go there, except to say...
Matthew 18:21-35 What kind of people shall we be?September 11, 2011. The Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Roy W. Howard Let me begin by confessing that I have as many questions as answers, and the answers I do have often give rise to more questions. This is...
