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Jul 25, 2010 - Serving/Hospitality The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin James, Apostle It is not an easy or glamorous life, but it is this servant-life to which we were called in Holy Baptism, and for which we are regularly strengthened in Holy Communion. (More...)
Jul 18, 2010 - Hospitality The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Eighth Sunday after Pentecost All of us have received God's hospitality. What have we done with it? (More...)
Jul 11, 2010 - Go and Do The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Go and do likewise, means both to give and to receive that love of God. We have trouble with both sides. (More...)
Jul 4, 2010 - Extraordinary! The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Throughout the history of the church, it has been ordinary people who have continued to do extraordinary things in the name of Jesus. (More...)
Jun 20, 2010 - Grace, and commissioning The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Think of that man, that new believer, that man just healed from his bondage to the place and powers of death. Jesus doesn't coddle him, but heals and commissions him on the spot. (More...)
Jun 13, 2010 - Grace in Action The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Third Sunday after Pentecost We can't prove anything to God, but we can hear his promise with joy, gather here to give thanks, and discern how best to live and use these gifts henceforth. (More...)
Jun 6, 2010 - Alone The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Baccalaureate Service So graduates soon will be stepping out of the relatively structured environment of high school. How many will be thinking that they can make it alone? They are the ones who will have the hardest times. (More...)
Jun 6, 2010 - Call and Conversion The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Second Sunday after Pentecost We thought that the ideas of “call” and “conversion” only applied to special people like Paul. Surprise! They are what happens in and through us as well. (More...)
May 30, 2010 - Say it three times The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Holy Trinity Who is this Jesus? God and man at the same time, and indivisibly so, says the Creed, in the face of those who want to claim that he is something less than that. (More...)
May 23, 2010 - God, clearly The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Festival of Pentecost To understand as much of the mystery of God as we are able to comprehend, look to Jesus. (More...)
May 22, 2010 - A Psalm for Life The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Gusmerotti/Womer Wedding So now, all of these images that we discover in the 23rd Psalm are very appropriate for this day; they represent just exactly what we need to hear at the time of a wedding. (More...)
May 16, 2010 - They Will Know that We Are Christians... The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Seventh Sunday of Easter The thing for us to ask is: What shall I do that fits the pattern of the love and unity of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit, and how Jesus extends that relationship to include us?...and then get busy! (More...)
May 9, 2010 - On the Way The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Sixth Sunday of Easter So, let each of us this sentence and apply it to our own situation: "The purpose of my life is to proclaim Jesus Christ to each other and to all the world by..." and open our ears and eyes to all the possible great ways to finish the sentence. (More...)
May 2, 2010 - New! The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Fifth Sunday of Easter A transformation is at work in you and me. Fear based on the past is going to give way to trust based on God's future expressed in resurrection. (More...)
Apr 25, 2010 - A Question of Trust The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Fourth Sunday of Easter Instead of answering the demand for proof, Jesus asks the questioners: “Are you willing to trust me? Follow!” (More...)
Apr 18, 2010 - Jesus is Loose, to capture you! The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Third Sunday of Easter No matter if it has been a quiet and easy time of late, or difficult and conflicted for any of us, with full voice, with confidence, let us remind each other of that powerful reality of the season...that Jesus is loose: Christ is risen. (More...)
Apr 11, 2010 - Forgive The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Second Sunday of Easter Let's put it baldly: without forgiveness, life in the church becomes harsh and unpleasant, and perhaps impossible. (More...)
Apr 4, 2010 - The Last Conflict The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Easter The promise is announced for us: the power of God which will break down every obstacle that would destroy or impede us, even the power of death. (More...)
Apr 3, 2010 - Persistence The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Easter Vigil Patience, persistence, a bit at a time. These are the ways in which the risen Lord Jesus deals with us as well. Some may receive the gift of faith quickly. But for most of us, faith in Christ is revealed to us in small doses. (More...)
Apr 2, 2010 - Remembering The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Good Friday Evening No matter how diligently we work at learning and remembering those things, no matter how diligently we try to apply them in day to day life, we still are always forgetting, and failing, and drifting in a dozen directions. (More...)
Apr 2, 2010 - What do we bury? The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Good Friday On that Good Friday afternoon, Joseph and Nicodemus thought they were burying all their hopes and dreams of Messiah when they rolled the stone in front of the grave. But they were only doing what had to happen so that the promises of God would be fruitful. (More...)
Apr 1, 2010 - Received...and handed on The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Maundy Thursday When Jesus announces “This is my body...This is the new covenant in my blood...” he is handing to us a reality greater than we can understand ,but which nevertheless is continuing its job of transforming us. (More...)
Mar 28, 2010 - The Stones Would Shout The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Palm Sunday It is an outrageous and yet wonderful claim; that God cares about us so much that he is willing to go through the worst of what we can do to one another and the worst of what death attempts against us. (More...)
Mar 21, 2010 - All Miracle The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Fifth Sunday of Lent It is all miracle. That is our way of understanding ourselves and all of creation; it is all miraculous, not mechanical or accidental. Every bit of the entire creation is sustained by the Word of God. (More...)
Mar 14, 2010 - Ambassadors? The Rev. Kenneth R. Elkin Fourth Sunday of Lent Our human tendency is to look for the loopholes, the ways to avoid responding to the gifts that have been granted to us. Not me, not now, too hard, too much... we rattle on and on. But fortunately, God is more patient than we are foolish. (More...)
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