Before the first leper was ever healed or a single parable was told, he was loved. Before any sinner was embraced; before the crowds...

The Feast of the Epiphany—2022 St. Anthony, Dalhart, Texas There’s a country song with a line that says: “Time, like money, just slips...

As far back as he could remember, he had been searching for something. His parents called him their "perpetual motion machine." His...

Sometimes, among the diapers and the cheerios, in the middle of carpools and homework wars and hockey practice-- in the chaos that...

I grew up in the Midwest where it snows in December and pine trees are as numerous as tumbleweeds in Texas. At Christmas, I miss my home...

Wherever women work or laugh or mourn a lost child they are there. Whenever women wait in pregnant hope, one heart beating with another...

The Fourth Sunday of Advent is Mary’s Sunday in both Year B and Year C of the lectionary. In Year A, the First Gospel is featured and,...

We offer a Homiletical Exegesis and two sample homilies for Advent Week 3. We hope these resources are a blessing to you. Of the three...

“I’m not worthy. Not worthy to touch his sandal straps.” Most Americans won’t relate to this statement from the John the Baptist in...

I am baptizing you with water, but one mightier than I is coming. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. Fire. A blaze can...

“Make straight the way of the Lord! “Prepare a highway for our God!” That’s the theme of today’s sermon from St. John the Baptist; a...

The Third Evangelist begins his birth narratives by simply locating these events and Divine purposes: “In the days of King Herod of Judea...

Reflecting ancient church tradition, the First Sunday of Advent focuses primarily on the Second Advent of Christ when God will come and...

The trial scene is so familiar—Jesus there before Pilate. Right off, Pilate raises the big question: “Are you the King of the Jews?” ...

At that time there shall arise Michael, the great prince; it shall be a time unsurpassed in distress. But those whose names are written...

Jesus was once again in the Temple during that Holy Week. He was sitting and watching people tossing their offerings into large brass...

When I was a girl, I hated my hair. Seriously... Hated it. You see, when I was growing up, every girl dreamed of looking like Peggy...

Last week’s gospel focused on two apostles who were brothers, James and John. They were known as the Sons of Thunder. Today we encounter...

In 1940, my Uncle Ray, a young Methodist pastor, was named interim pastor of a thriving community in Kansas, an assignment that usually...

Some people live their lives with a sense of dread. The world they inhabit feels unpredictable and unsafe. Even on sunny days, they scan...