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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So together, we build and cross that bridge—discovering that the wisdom of the Bible is not distant or outdated, but present, personal, and powerfully relevant for our lives today.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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Mar 17, 2026
Mar 17, 2026
21 min
Read John 9:1-13, 28-38
Fourth Sunday in Lent (Year A)
Who Sinned?
Welcome to today’s message, titled “Who Sinned?”—a reflection on John 9:1–13, 28–38. It’s a natural question, isn’t it? When something terrible happens, our first instinct is to ask why. Why this city and not that one? Why this person, and not another? Earthquakes, floods, wars, wildfires—each disaster stirs our hearts to cry out, “Why here? Why now? Why them?”
We ask the same question in the deeply personal moments of life: Why did this man get cancer, and his brother didn’t? Why was one spared while another suffered? No question pierces us more profoundly than, “Why me?” The question of why pushes us to wrestle with the connection between God's goodness and the reality of human suffering—a tension that challenges faith for many and even leads some to doubt God altogether.
Into that universal struggle, John 9 opens quietly—with a man born blind, and a question on the lips of the disciples: “Rabbi, who sinned?”
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