Sermon: Epiphany 7 Daily and Weekly Worship Life has its rhythms. Last time we talked about the annual rhythm of the Church Year. From November to June, we live in the story of Jesus — his coming at Advent and Christmas, his life and ministry through which he revealed God’s glory in Epiphany, his callContinue reading “Epiphany 7: Daily and Weekly Worship”
Category Archives: Epiphany
Epiphany: Worship Is Sunday Dinner
Sermon: Worship Is Sunday Dinner (Epiphany) To the bath and the table, To the prayers and the word, I call every seeking soul. • Inscribed on a church bell in Wisconsin • • • I became convinced long ago that one of the most important things I could do for a congregation was to teachContinue reading “Epiphany: Worship Is Sunday Dinner”
Epiphany VI: The Transfiguration — Light for the Darkness to Come
Sermon: Epiphany VI – Transfiguration Light for the Darkness to Come Mark 9:2-9 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleachContinue reading “Epiphany VI: The Transfiguration — Light for the Darkness to Come”
Epiphany IV: Confronting the Very Stuff of This World
Sermon: Epiphany IV — Confronting the Very Stuff of This World Mark 1:21-28 They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. Just then there was in their synagogue aContinue reading “Epiphany IV: Confronting the Very Stuff of This World”
Another Look: A Long[er] Way from the Lake
Note from CM: Here is another take on yesterday’s Gospel text (though Matthew’s version), one I wrote a few years ago. If anything, my vocational path is clearer, but the “reinvention of one’s self” continues. And I certainly feel even older. The journey continues… • • • As Jesus walked along the shore of LakeContinue reading “Another Look: A Long[er] Way from the Lake”
Epiphany III: Bada Bing Bada Boom?
Sermon: Epiphany III — Bada Bing Bada Boom? • Mark 1:14-20 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.’ As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee,Continue reading “Epiphany III: Bada Bing Bada Boom?”
iMonk Classic: I Have My Doubts
Note from CM: Here is one of Michael’s all-time best posts, a classic example of why people loved and listened to him. He spoke as a human being to other human beings. Our Christian faith doesn’t permit us to skip the “human” part, though many of its practitioners advertise it in precisely those terms. InContinue reading “iMonk Classic: I Have My Doubts”
Epiphany II: God Revealed to Skeptics
Sermon: Epiphany II: God Revealed to Skeptics • John 1:43-51 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him about whom Moses in theContinue reading “Epiphany II: God Revealed to Skeptics”
iMonk Classic: Thoughts on Merton’s “Walnut Street Epiphany”
iMonk Classic: Thoughts on Merton’s “Walnut Street Epiphany” From a 2005 post by Michael Spencer “Yesterday, in Louisville, at the corner of 4th and Walnut, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all these people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another evenContinue reading “iMonk Classic: Thoughts on Merton’s “Walnut Street Epiphany””
Another Look: Weddings and Being Too Easily Pleased
Weddings and Being Too Easily Pleased • John 2:1-11 I used to not like weddings very much. They seemed like a lot of trouble, and people tended to overdo them. When we had children at home and lots of things on our plate, it seems that weddings always interrupted other plans and caused upheaval inContinue reading “Another Look: Weddings and Being Too Easily Pleased”
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