Sunday, December 18, 2022 – 4th Sunday of Advent
Isaiah 7:10-16; Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18; Romans 1:1-7; Matthew 1:18-25 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer One of my running app coaches tells me to be fearless. She doesn’t mean fearless as in recklessness or taking unwarranted risks. She is telling me to fear less than my faith. What she means is that I need to “up my faith”—trust the […]
Sunday, December 4, 2022 – 2nd Sunday of Advent
Isaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72:1-7 Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 3:1-12 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Many of you know that I like to run several times a week. I use a running app that offers coaching for every run. One of my favorite running coaches on the app tells me it is ok to look back as long as I […]
Sunday, November 27, 2022 – 1st Sunday of Advent
Isaiah 2: 1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Buckle up boys and girls—somebody is getting left behind. That is always my first thought when I hear this passage from Matthew thanks to our pre-millennial-dispensationalist-poorly-interpreted-scripture-made-up-theology of the 21st century. Two are standing together, one is taken and the other is left behind. Words that […]
Sunday, November 13, 2022 – 23rd Sunday of Pentecost
Isaiah 65:17-25; Canticle 9; II Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer I promise that not every sermon I preach will begin with the words, “When I was in the Holy Land…” but I can’t resist a second week of sharing some of that experience and hope that you might indulge me one […]
Sunday, October 16, 2022 – Nineteenth Sunday of Pentecost
Jeremiah 31:27-34; Psalm 119:97-104; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5; Luke 18:1-8 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer There is a MASH episode in which Hawkeye gets a pass for some R and R. After putting on a yellow silk shirt under his olive green kaki army jacket, he wrangles a jeep and begins his journey. Not too far from camp, […]
Sunday, October 2, 2022 – Seventeenth Sunday of Pentecost
Lamentations 1:1-6; Lamentations 3:19-26; 2Timothy 1:1-14; Luke 17:5-10 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer On Wednesday night I began texting some of my clergy friends who live in southwest Florida. Mostly my texts were filled with prayers and concern though I did inquire as to whether or not my island friends were evacuating. One of them […]
September 18, 2022: Fifteenth Sunday of Pentecost
Jeremiah 8:18-9:1, Psalm 79:1-9; Timothy 2:1-7 Luke 16:1-13 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Of all the prophets in the Old Testament, Jeremiah’s story is the most heart wrenching. Sure, Elijah gets chased by Jezebel and her band of Baal priest goons, but he also gets to ascend into heaven in a sun chariot. Poor Jeremiah doesn’t want […]
September 11, 2022: Fourteenth Sunday of Pentecost
Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28; Psalm 14; Timothy 2:1-7 Luke 15:1-10 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer The little sheep had been enjoying the delicate, dew-laden grass of the early morning when he realized he was all alone. He looked around and seeing none of his sheep friends, much less the shepherd, he began to bleat. He bleated and bleated, […]
August 21, 2022: Eleventh Sunday of Pentecost
Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6; Hebrews 12:18-29 Luke 13:10-17 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Almost three weeks ago I got an urgent call from my mother. It was an unusual call, in part because my mother is a strong, independent woman who never asks for help. She asked me to come and take her to the […]
August 14, 2022: Tenth Sunday of Pentecost
Amos 5:18-24; Psalm 85:7-13; Galatians 3:22-28 Luke 1:46-55 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Some of you have heard me tell this story—and I hope you don’t mind if I tell it again, especially on this Feast of Jonathan Myrick Daniels. I was in ninth grade, in Ms. Jackson’s English class. I was sitting with my girlfriends—there were […]