Pentecost +15 Rev. Doug Floyd Deuteronomy 4:1-9, Psalm 15, Ephesians 6:10-20, Mark 7:1-23 In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the world has grown tired of reading. In fact, most books are outlawed. People spend their free time watching wall to wall entertainment or listening to music and stories with their ear buds. Written in 1951, the…
People in Places Bearing Witness Pentecost +8 Rev. Doug Floyd During this extended time that we call Ordinary Time, we count each week in light of Pentecost, so on the bulletin, it says Pentecost +8 (eight Sundays after Pentecost). We will count time like this until the beginning of Advent. This helps us meditate on…
Pentecost +7 Rev. Connor Searle Good morning! It’s good to be here with you. It’s good to see so many familiar faces and so many new faces. For those of you I don’t know, my name is Connor Searle. I’m a deacon with a ministry in the Lutheran tradition affectionately tagged “Hope for all Sinners…
Remembering Sabbath Pentecost +2 Rev. Doug Floyd June 3, 2018 Deuteronomy 5:6-21, Psalm 81, 1 Corinthians 4:1-12, Mark 2:23-28 “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” As Jesus replies to the Pharisees question about the disciples plucking grain on the Sabbath, he reminds them that Sabbath is a gift not a…
Act in hope. That’s the choice we have. Hope not in who we will be, but He who IS. Hope not in the things we collect whether that is material goods or the detritus of discarded identities, tried on, found ill fitting, then thrown away. Hope in the Father-pleasing Son of God, the one Person that will always love us as ourselves.
God at War Last Sunday Before Lent B 2018 Rev. Doug Floyd 1 Kings 19:9-18, Mark 9:2-9 Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah. Ahab son of Omri was king over Israel for twenty-two years. He ruled from Samaria. Ahab son of Omri did even…
When we cross ourselves and dip our fingers in the baptismal font and cross ourselves, we remember our baptism and deliverance from the kingdom of darkness. This is not simply a mental remembrance, it is an active rehearsal of our redemption by God’s grace from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light.
Epiphany 3B 2018 St. Brendan’s Anglican Church Rev. Doug Floyd Mark 1: 14-20 These cold temperatures of late make me think of a poem by Rod Jellema on the relationship winter and summer. Come Winter Our two most beautiful words said Henry James are summer and afternoon, and today he’s almost right. Out of the…
Baptism of the Lord 2018 St. Brendan’s Anglican Church Rev. Doug Floyd Mark 1:7-11 Today we are observing the Baptism of the Lord as recounted in the Gospel of Mark. Throughout this year B in the lectionary cycle, Mark will provide our primary Gospel readings. This Gospel is shorter, starker, and in some ways more…
Expectant Prayers of the Desperate Advent 2B 2017 Mark 1:1-8 Rev. Doug Floyd They’re leaving the city. Men and women. Tax collectors. Soldiers. Pharisees and even Sadducees. It seems like everyone is headed to the Jordan River, hoping to hear the voice that trumpets the coming of the kingdom. He doesn’t mince words. “Prepare the…