Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. Last Thursday was the Feast of the Ascension – the day when we remember the last time the resurrected Jesus gathered with his friends before being lifted up to heaven before their very eyes. Next Sunday…
St. James' Episcopal Church – Mt. Airy, Maryland
Sermons by Rev. Kristin Krantz (Page 17)
Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. A certain woman named Lydia. We don’t know much about this woman. She was a worshiper of God – that is a Gentile who was studying Judaism, but not yet a convert. She was…
Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. From time to time I have heard people say that if Jesus came back today he wouldn’t recognize the religion which bears his name. When people say that the implication is that there is…
Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. Night has passed and a new day is beginning. For this third, and final, time in the Gospel of John that Jesus appeared to the disciples after being raised from the dead, we watch the story…
Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. How many of you heard the Gospel today and thought to yourself, “Oh, it’s the doubting Thomas story?” How many of you heard the Gospel today and thought to yourself, “Oh, it’s Pentecost already?” Ah,…
Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! There is a practice in the Orthodox tradition to tells jokes at Easter in honor of the joke that Jesus played on death in the resurrection. Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It happened in Sunday School. It’s always Sunday School, isn’t it? You see, Ms. Clara…
Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! Fire and water, bread and wine: these are the primal elements of our faith, the means by which we encounter God. Tonight as we’ve gathered they have been wrapped in darkness, and now light – and above all love. Lent is the journey through the wilderness of the sin of…
Today everything is stripped bare. We gather on this Good Friday to contemplate the death of Jesus. As much as we may want to, we can’t make the story either stop before Jesus dies, or fast forward to the empty tomb. Today we must linger with the broken body of Jesus. The inevitability of the Good Friday story holds so much…
One of my favorite children’s books is The Easter Story by Brian Wildsmith. I love it for two reasons. First, it has the most amazing illustrations – the kind that set your heart to singing; and secondly, because it is a wonderful telling of the Easter story for children that in no way dumbs down the events from Palm Sunday all…
Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. Parables don’t tell us what to do or how to behave, they tell us something of the nature of God. It’s important to remember this as we read again one of the most well-known…