November 8, 2020: The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” – Joshua 24:17 Earlier this fall, we spent nine long weeks wandering in the wilderness in that space in between Egypt and the Promised Land. That time of the “in-between” is what is often referred to as liminal space. We know liminal space as […]
October 25, 2020: The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
This past week I suggested Tracy and I switch places—I would do all the invoices and she could preach on Sunday. She started laughing and told me that she knew exactly what she would preach—SINNERS! You’re all sinners. Not because she thought we were exceptional as sinners, per se, but because she had been brought […]
October 18, 2020: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
We finally made it. After nine long weeks of wandering in the wilderness, we have arrived—not in the Promised Land mind you*, but at the end of the Exodus readings in the lectionary. We started all those many weeks ago with Moses’ birth and rescue from the Nile only for him to go on the […]
October 11, 2020: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Drew Brislin
Whenever I think of the story, the story of the golden calf, in the Exodus narrative, my mind inevitably conjures up images of Charlton Heston in the movie The Ten Commandments, which always seems to be showing on at least one channel during Easter. That image of a gray haired and bearded Heston coming down […]
October 4, 2020: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
The Ancient Israelites have been wandering in the wilderness complaining about hunger and thirst and God continues to provide—just as he provided their release from captivity under the Egyptians tortuous demands and punishments. Now they are free and they must begin to learn just what that freedom means and how to live as free persons. […]
September 20, 2020: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
There is nothing like a hurricane to put our collect this morning into perspective—“Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure…” Many along the Gulf Coast went […]
August 30, 2020: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
A lot has happened since Moses was rescued from the Nile. He has grown up, killed a man, fled for his life, married a Midianite woman, and become a shepherd. All that in a few short passages of scripture. Funny how quickly our life can be summed up. There are other ways of summing up […]
August 23, 2020: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
Jesus tells Peter that whatever he binds on earth is bound in heaven and whatever he looses on earth is loosed in heaven. That’s a responsibility we all share in—this binding and loosing. Sure, the pandemic seems to have bound us in some particular ways but if we are letting our fear around the pandemic […]
August 9, 2020: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
We are all looking for salvation though most of us define salvation in vastly different ways. We might think of it as acceptance or judgment, a release from suffering or an easy life. Whatever our basic understanding of salvation is, it determines what motivates our behaviors and influences our decision making. If we think of […]
July 26, 2020: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice B. Frazer
Recently I heard a story about a whale. Researchers in the ‘80s had been working with sonar in the Pacific Ocean to try and identify submarine activity. They would often hear whales calling out to one another. Whales travel in pods and help locate one another even when they are miles apart by emitting underwater […]