Category: Sermons

In 1492, in Salmanca, Spain, Antonio de Nebrija presented his latest book to Queen Isabella. Nebrija had just written the first textbook on the grammar of the Spanish language – a grammar of the vernacular, the ordinary language of the people spoken in markets and in the fields, at home and on the streets. At [...]

I want us to think for a second about how difficult the Ascension must have been for Jesus. Now this may seem like an odd thing to say. Joining God in Heaven, returning to one's rightful home must have been a joyous occasion, something Jesus had long been looking forward too. I'm sure that's partially [...]

In the old Jerusalem, the heart of the city was the Temple, and the heart of the Temple was the Holy of Holies and the kapporeth, or mercy seat – the empty space above the Ark of the Covenant, between the two golden cherubim whose wings served as God's throne. The Holy of Holies was [...]

The Revelation to John is written in two scripts. I'm guessing we are more familiar with the first script – the tightly written, what seems to be page after page of paranoid fantasy of malice, something like the letters one might get from the wretched and disturbed. They were allowed to torture them for five [...]

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  Let us pray: O Lord, our God. We give you thanks that we may celebrate Easter together. We give you thanks because you are such an inconceivably great, holy, and merciful God. When we rejected, condemned, and killed your dear Son, you used this horror to bring about peace for us and for all [...]