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  • Celebrating a Patriarchal Eucharist

    Celebrating a Patriarchal Eucharist

    This article was first published the Fight Laugh Feast magazine. It’s been said that in the Lord’s Supper, the church practices life the way it really ought to be lived. When we do the Lord’s Supper right, we do life right. When the church is what she is supposed to be, gathered around the Lord’s… Read more

  • Lenten Meditation (Revised)

    Lenten Meditation (Revised)

    Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (Mk. 2:27). If the God-ordained Sabbath was instituted for the sake of human needs, this is all the more true of the church’s calendar, which does not derive from divine ordinance, but from the church’s reflection on God’s redemptive work in history… Read more

  • Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday (Revised)

    Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday (Revised)

    What is Shrove Tuesday? To be frank, Shrove Tuesday is just an excuse for a church party — after all, pancakes need no theological justification! But it does have a long and venerable history. Shrove Tuesday is an 800+ year old tradition in English speaking churches. It marks the end of the festive season of… Read more

  • Baptismal Exhortation: Infants and the Exodus

    Baptismal Exhortation: Infants and the Exodus

    We have the great privilege today of witnessing a baptism. I say “witnessing” because anytime you see a pastor baptize someone, Jesus himself is truly the baptizer. When a pastor baptizes someone one, young or old, Jesus is the one who actually performs the act. Sometimes it is said that there are no examples of… Read more

  • Looking Back on 2023

    Looking Back on 2023

    The new year is well underway, but I always like to look back in the work I did in the previous year that I think was most significant.  My most important sermons were probably this one on LGBTQ+ “Pride” month and this one on Judges 2, preached at our church plant in Columbus, GA and which could serve as… Read more

  • Two Baptismal Exhortations 

    Two Baptismal Exhortations 

    Welcome to the baptismal service of T. It is Christmas and during the season of Christmas, we celebrate a birth. We celebrate an infant. Christmas is a pro-child holiday because it’s about the coming of The Child into our world. It’s no surprise children love Christmas so much because Christmas is about a very special… Read more