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Preaching, to me, is the work of building bridges.
A bridge doesn’t erase distance—it spans it. In the same way, every sermon seeks to connect two worlds: the ancient, living story of Scripture and the complex, searching world we inhabit today. The task isn’t simply to explain the text, but to faithfully carry its voice across the gap—so that what God has spoken then can be clearly heard now.
That gap is real. It stretches across centuries of culture, language, and lived experience. But it is not unbridgeable. Through thoughtful, practical preaching, I aim to help others walk that span—to see how the truth of Scripture still speaks, still challenges, and still transforms.
So together, we build and cross that bridge—discovering that the wisdom of the Bible is not distant or outdated, but present, personal, and powerfully relevant for our lives today.
I currently serve as Rector of Prince of Peace Anglican Church in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, within the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh (ADP) and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).
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Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Read Luke 15.1-10
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
The Pharisees and scribes are grumbling about it: "What is he doing eating with the outcasts and the unimportant?" God intends for his house to be full and for his eternal food to be enjoyed. So God sends his Son to give his life as a ransom for many; the ransom (Jesus) is the one who was sacrificed in our place. The one who lived the life we should have lived: Jesus, our exemplar. Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, personally called the guests to God's heavenly banquet. But the scribes and Pharisees are too much in love with the seats of honour, the ordinary things of this world, their fields, their oxen and their families. They are too much in love with their stuff to care much about heaven, to care much about people with bad reputations. So what does Jesus, our exemplar and the author and finisher of our faith, do? He goes to the roads and lanes to find the poor, the crippled the blind, the lame and the tax collectors and sinners, and he eats with them.
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