Two Resurrection songs
After the Good Friday sermon meditating on death, it is time to meditate on Resurrection Life and the victory won by Jesus Messiah. Here are two songs rattling around in my head. The Exsultet is sung...
View ArticleSermon: The first Passover of the second Exodus
This sermon was preached toward the end of Lent at Christ Our Redeemer Anglican Church in Oklahoma City, but it is posted now as Passover approaches. Fifth Sunday in Lent | Passion Sunday Jeremiah...
View ArticleSermon: Where are you on the Israel question?
Easter 6 – Year B – Emmaus Anglican Church, Castle Rock, CO Isaiah 45:11–13, 18–25Psalm 33Acts 11:19–30John 15:9–17 Last Sunday I started a book that’s been sitting on my nightstand for months: The...
View ArticleTrinity: Belonging & calling in the family of God
Exodus 3:1-6Psalm 93Romans 8:12-17John 3:1-16 Shalom, shalom this Trinity Sunday. Most of the church calendar commemorates an event in the life of Jesus the Messiah or of those disciples who have gone...
View ArticleSermon: There’s something about Mary
Feast of Mary Isaiah 61:10–11 Psalm 34 Galatians 4:4–7 Luke 1:46–55 Earlier we prayed, “O God, you have taken to yourself the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of your incarnate Son…” As today’s collect...
View ArticleSermon: How not to read Acts 3 antisemitically
Editor’s note: This teaching is based on the sermon above, given at Christ Our Hope Anglican Church in Natrona Heights, PA in April 2024. Second Sunday of Easter Isaiah 26:1-9, 19 Psalm 111 Acts...
View ArticleSermon: The Gospel is for those on the fringe
Thursday after the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 26)Trinity Anglican Seminary Psalm 19II Chronicles 33Acts 11:19-30 Good morning, friends. We have an embarrassment of riches in our...
View ArticleSermon: God remembers. We should remember.
Siloam Baptist Church – Cardiff, Wales, UKNote: My recorder failed halfway, so the audio quality drops considerably around the 10-minute mark. Good morning, friends. It’s been a year since I was last...
View ArticleSermon: Why did God call Abraham?
I love lectionaries. That’s the fancy church word for the Parasha haShavua. Lectionaries tell you what to read when. When you’re a preacher, whether visiting or in your home congregation, looking at...
View ArticleSermon: Messiah will return to regather Israel & the nations
Third Sunday of Advent – Church of the Savior, Ambridge, PA Zephaniah 3:14-20Psalms 85Philippians 4:4-9Luke 3:7-20 We’re already at the third Sunday of Advent. Christmas is nearly upon us! Advent is...
View ArticleSermon: Yeshua in our joy and sorrow
Jeremiah 31:15-17Psalm 124Revelation 21:1-7Matthew 2:13-18Editor’s note: This sermon was giving at Grace Anglican Church in Edgeworth, PA, on December 28, 2024.Merry Christmas! Or is it?Here we are in...
View ArticleSermon: God’s Passover for the nations
Preached at New Jerusalem House of Prayer 1 Feb 2025. Parashat Bo Torah: Exodus 10:1-13:16 – focus on Exodus 12:29-42 Prophets: Jeremiah 46:13-28 Gospel: John 19:31-37 Psalm 77 I will remind myself of...
View ArticleWhen you need to see Dead Jesus (2025)
Editor’s note: This post is a reworking of this writing from early 2024. I rewrote it, adding portions from Waiting for death, servant of God, after I was asked to present it as a spoken word piece...
View ArticleSermon: The wild olive in the sukkah
This message was given at Shoresh David Messianic Congregation in Monroeville, PA on the occasion of Sukkot/Feast of Booths 2025. Chag sukkot sameach, friends. Happy Feast of Booths. Today we will...
View ArticleSermon: Loving our Jewish neighbor like Ruth
This sermon was given at St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Butler, PA on October 12, 2025, sixth day of Sukkot. The Anglican lectionary readings were from Proper 23 – Year C: Ruth 1:1–19aPsalm 113II...
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