Perhaps a peculiar aspect of our tradition is the pre-communion prayers. Now, preparation to receive the Body and Blood of Christ is good, but the odd thing is that these prayers ask us to identify with people that we typically despise. 

The Scriptural Liturgy. Oops! If fedoras existed in ancient Israel, the high priest Hilkiah would have worn one long before Indiana Jones did. In the previous weeks, we’ve slowly been moving through the history of ancient Israel: from the Passover

Oops! If you take what doesn’t belong to you, it’s said that you have “sticky fingers.” However, those who do the taking say they’re merely taking advantage of the “five-finger discount.” Whatever spin you put on it, morally, it’s wrong

Oops! What do you do when all your hard work goes unnoticed? What do you do when others reject good things you’ve done for them? Those were the questions God had to ask himself after freeing his own people from

Oops! Once, a young woman was preparing a pot roast for a family dinner. She cut off the ends of the roast before placing it in the pan. Curious, her husband asked why she did that. “I don’t know,” she

Sunday of the Blind ManScripture: Acts 16:16 – 34 Oops! Sometimes, when things get out of our control they go from bad to worse. As we loose control, the reality may be that we’re digging our own grave. Most of

Sunday of the Samaritan WomanScripture: Acts 11:19 – 30 Oops! As many of you know, I’ve spent some time in Greece, and I’ve also traveled to Turkey. I can remember walking around Athens and Istanbul taking in the strangeness of

Sunday of the ParalyticScripture: Acts 9:32-42 Oops! By all accounts, Tabitha should have been forgotten. We shouldn’t be hearing about her today. We shouldn’t be talking about her.  Just take a look at her life. She wasn’t a politician. She

Sunday of the Myrrh-BearersScripture: Acts 6:1-7 Oops! Like last Sunday, this Sunday has a special designation: the remembrance of the Myrrh-bearing women along with Joseph of Arimathea. As you heard in Matins this morning, the themes of today’s hymnography revolve

Sunday After Pascha: Thomas SundayScripture: Acts 5:12-20 Oops! On this, the first Sunday after Pascha, we celebrate the apostle Thomas, the one who wanted to touch Christ before he would believe that Christ had risen from the dead. Sermons on