Posts with the tag “confession”
Sermon for the Feast of the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist, AD 2021
August 29th, 2021
Our gospel reading for the Martyrdom of John the Baptist is one of the few passages in the gospels that does not feature Jesus. Even though today we remember the death of John the Baptist, and this is... Read More
Sermon for Quasimodo Geniti, the Second Sunday of Easter, AD 2021
April 12th, 2021
John always has a theological point he is trying to make in his gospel. One of John’s trademarks that the other gospel writers don’t do is to jump in and “take the mic” so to speak in order to explain... Read More
Sermon for Rorate Coeli, the Fourth Sunday in Advent, AD 2020
December 21st, 2020
God sent a man named John to bear witness about Jesus. ... Read More
Sermon for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, AD 2020
August 24th, 2020
In the first century there were all sorts of ideas concerning who Jesus is. King Herod, who killed John the Baptist, saw Jesus as a resurrected John, riling up the people with his calls to repentance.... Read More