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December 2012

December 26, 2012

Sermon on Pirates in the Nativity and How God Incarnates the Impossible Among the Unlikely

And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and...

December 11, 2012

Pregnant old ladies and other signs that God’s story is better than the one we tell ourselves

12-9-2012 NBW Sermon <-----Click here to listen along. Seriously. I beg you. Sermons are meant to...

December 05, 2012

Creating Memories in an Advent Waiting Room

The Spanish courtyard outside our worship space has been turned into an Advent Waiting Room...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Sermon on Thanksgiving at Pontius Pilate’s Mom’s House and Where We Belong

Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the King of...

November 19, 2012

Sermon on walls and hope and the Abraham Mosque

11-18-2012 NBW HFASS Sermon<------Click here to listen along I recently read that there...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Sermon on Why the Gospel is More Wizard of Oz-y than the Law

10-28-2012 NBW Sermon <----click here to listen along. The difference between listening to a sermon...

October 26, 2012

Getting Jesus to Do Whatever You Ask of Him (and other ways you can’t avoid death and resurrection)

10-21-12 NBW Sermon <-----click here to listen to the sermon (that's what makes it "preaching") This...

October 12, 2012

A sermon on hacking off our own limbs for Jesus.

Mark 9:42-48 “If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Parking Day Eucharist

Tomorrow (Friday Sept 21st) House for All Sinners and Saints will be participating in Parking...

September 17, 2012

Sermon for the ordination of Matthew Nickoloff

Matthew was the Vicar (seminary intern) for 14 months at House for All Sinners and...

September 11, 2012

Sometimes It Hurts; a Sermon on Healing

NBW sermon 9-9-12 <-------click here to listen along. Sermons are a spoken act. 31Then...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

“This teaching is HARD, who can accept it” – a sermon on the Eucharist

NBW Sermon 8-26-2012 <CLICK HERE to listen along. Sermons are a spoken event!! In the last...

August 13, 2012

Sermon on Eternal Life and Living Like Liberace With Your Mom and Her Friends Forever

Jesus said to them, 7Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48I...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Sermon about Mary Magdalen, the masacre in our town, and defiant alleluias

But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look* into...

July 17, 2012

Sermon on Salome, Herod, and the Beheading of John the Baptist

NB-W Sermon 7_16_2012 <----Click here to listen along. Sermons are are spoken art form. When...

July 01, 2012

Obama Care and why Churches Don’t Need to Be Political Mono-Cultures

House for All Sinners and Saints, the congregation I serve as Pastor, is a pretty...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

A Blessing of the Bicycles

Urban biking is not without peril. Many of my parishioners rely exclusively on human-powered transportation...

June 25, 2012

Sermon on Fear, Self-centeredness and the Storm at Sea

NBW sermon 6_24_2012 <------- Click here to listen along. Preaching is a spoken art form!...

June 06, 2012

people will actually sing if you let them.

This past Sunday I recorded the last verse of our closing hymn: How Great Thou...

June 01, 2012

Some thoughts on the Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity is not the most popular festival among preachers who, for all the other...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

The Pentecost sermon I preached at the Festival of Homiletics

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2And suddenly...

May 14, 2012

Agape Doesn’t Mean “Potluck”

Sermon 5-13-2012 <---------Click here to listen along. Sermons are a spoken art form! 9As the...

May 10, 2012

I hope the President just did what I could not do today

I like to hold “office hours” every week at a local coffee house. It gives...

May 09, 2012

The Conversion of Phillip by a Gender Transgressive Foreigner

3 years ago I preached a sermon on Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch that became...

May 02, 2012

A Sermon on Snacking and the Stupid Things People Say

sermon on Snacking <-------Click here to listen along. Sermons are a spoken art form! 36b"Peace...

April 2012

April 29, 2012

Church and Crossfit and what they have in common.

I can't lift my arms. They scream in muscle soreness after 3 weeks of...

April 06, 2012

Maundy Thursday at House for All Sinners and Saints

Maundy Thursday begins the Triduum, the Great 3 Days of Jesus death and resurrection. The...

April 04, 2012

Mural of the Last Supper by House for All Sinners and Saints

Here's the mural of the Last Supper House for All Sinners and Saints made out of...

April 03, 2012

A Palm Sunday Sermon on Why We Don’t Go Straight From Hosanna! to He is Risen!

(On Palm Sunday I had the honor of preaching at Highland's Church in denver. Highlands...

March 2012

March 31, 2012

Idea for Maundy Thursday

The ordo for Maundy Thursday is traditionally all mixed up...we start with the sermon. Here's...