Tag: Prayer
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Praying with scripture—and our imaginations
Fourth Sunday in Lent: 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 I wasn’t at the morning liturgies last week, but I have it on the sound authority that is the parish website that Mother Kate had a challenge for us: “You NEED to be praying and reading the Bible,” she said. “It is what…
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A Parable of Grit, and Hope
A sermon for Proper 24: Jeremiah 31:27-34; Psalm 119:97-104; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5; Luke 18:1-8 A friend and I play a sort of ongoing game of long-distance tag. We’re both interested in character formation, and we’re enchanted by one idea that is currently en vogue. Researchers call it grit. Our obsession with popular discussions of grit has gotten a…
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Sermon: (The Lord’s) Prayer
Proper 12 Hosea 1:2-10; Psalm 85; Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19); Luke 11:1-13 I spent most of the last week in Alexandria wrapping up my formal employment at Virginia Seminary. Among the many joys of being with my colleagues one last time was learning that a book project I’d been rooting for is moving forward. The book is a biography…
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Resolving to practice faith at home: A sermon for the Feast of the Holy Name
Feast of the Holy Name (Numbers 6:22-27; Galatians 4:4-7; Luke 2:15-21; Psalm 8) PDF | Text: Some of you know that my job at Virginia Seminary is as a coach and curator in the area of Christian formation. So I spend my days immersed in the world of best practices for teaching and learning about faith, for claiming…