Holy Family Sunday 2018December 30, 2018Rev. Doug Floyd For centuries, the Coptic church has celebrated the Feast of the Holy Family as they meditate upon the story of the time Jesus spent in Egypt. In fact, every year Egyptian Christians continue to rehearse the story of the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt. Pilgrims ferry across…
Pentecost +14 Rev. Doug Floyd John 6 For the last several weeks, our Gospel readings have been from John 6. Today I want to pause over that entire chapter and listen. As John 6 opens, thousands of people follow Jesus up a mountain because he has been healing the sick. The Passover is at hand,…
Remembering Forgiveness Pentecost +12 Isaac Bradshaw My grandfather used to tell an old joke: A older man is sitting on his porch with a friend. It’s one of those, hot, humid summer nights and the katydids are “katdidy-ing” and the bug zapper snaps and pops as moths and gnats and mosquitos get too close to…
Isaac BradshawPentecost 2018 Acts 2:1-11, Psalm 104:25-35, 1 Corinthians 12:4-13, John 20:19-23 Billy Wilder is one of those figures in film history that has never truly died. He was a master of the art of filmmaking, and like DW Griffths and Orson Welles before him, he purified and distilled all the changes in the filmmakers…
Rev. Doug Floyd Sunday After Ascension 2018 Today is the Sunday after Ascension, and I want to reflect a little on ascension. Every time I try to write something about ascension, it quickly becomes too theological and quickly, I feel like people will lose interest. It will be difficult. It is one of these grand themes…
Easter 6 Rev. Doug Floyd John 15:9-17 Born to a wealthy and influential business man, Toyohiko Kagawa was orphaned by the age of four. His mother was a concubine of the businessman and his wife adopted Toyohiko as the sole heir of the father. He grew up in a wealthy Japanese home in the early…
Easter 5 2018 Rev. Doug Floyd Deuteronomy 4:32-40, Psalm 66, 1 John 3:11-24, John 14:15-21 In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus is comforting His disciples even as He prepares them for the change in their lives as He goes to the cross. He reassures them of his love and His presence. I always loved reading John…
Lent 5B 2018 St. Brendan’s Anglican Church Rev. Hank Williams Proofs of Christ’s Divinity & Humanity What I’m going to do today is continue with Father Doug’s Lenten motif of the shape and abundance of God’s love for us. (Prelude to Holy Week.) And the first thing that comes to mind with our passages from…
Lent 4B Lætare Sunday 2018 Rev. Doug Floyd John 6:1-15 On this fourth Sunday of Lent, we rejoice and celebrate that the feast of Resurrection is coming soon. Our Gospel story highlights the promise that is coming. We learn from John 6:4 that the feast of Pentecost is at hand. Then in John 6:5, we…
Christmas 1 2017 St. Brendan’s Anglican Church Isaac Bradshaw John 1:1-14 I had a very strange experience the other night. Some of you may know that I’m in the process of looking towards buying a house in the next few months. It’s a big step, but it’s one that I’ve been looking forward to. But…