It's so easy for us to get bogged down in the details and miss the big picture. Isaiah spoke out against the practice of offering sacrifices to God because Israel... read more →
What are our priorities? What do we spend the most time and energy on? And do the answers to those questions line up with each other? That’s the question central... read more →
The Lord's Prayer is perhaps the most well-known and frequently prayed of all Christian prayers. We pray it so often its meaning and impact may be obscured by familiarity. The... read more →
Who is Jesus to you? Jesus is the eternal second person of the Trinity, the Son of the Father, the eternal Word, our friend, our confidant, our Lord and King,... read more →
It is wonderful to be home and back in the pulpit at St. Peter's! One of the takeaways from the pilgrimage for me was that the cathedrals we visited are... read more →
Only Christ can bring us true healing and cast out our "demons." Yet the presence of Christ in our lives can sometimes be unnerving, uncomfortable, or even frightening. Learning to... read more →
God's grace is completely unmerited and 100% free. Frederick Buechner says, "There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve... read more →
Part of being human is experiencing pain, sin, and suffering. We look for healing and forgiveness in a lot of places. But the truest and greatest healing always begins with... read more →
Above all else, loving our enemies means recognizing the human dignity that is in them, put there by God. When we don’t acknowledge that dignity, something goes horribly wrong. We... read more →
When we think of the saints throughout history, we think of greats like St. Francis, or St. Augustine. But they didn’t get to be great saints overnight. Being a saint... read more →