Sermons
St. John's sermon archive.
Today’s gospel reveals healing through mud. Through mud a blind man came to see. Jesus saw a man blind from birth. “Jesus spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, saying to him, ‘Go wash in the pool of Siloam’ (which means Sent).
Holy God, with You is the water that gushes up to eternal life. Guide us to the spring of Your unfailing grace, and teach us to make the way known to all who yearn for Your love. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be always acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen.
Some Lenten practices become a part of who we are beyond Lent. That's the hope for us—that our fast becomes part of the fabric of our lives, whether we take on a new discipline or give up something. Several years ago I received an email entitled "Experience Lent" with a list of seven fasting practices to consider embracing during Lent.
It was Jesus of Nazareth all right, the man they’d tramped many a dusty mile with, whose mother and brothers they knew, the one they’d seen as hungry, tired, footsore as the rest of them. But it was also the Messiah, the Christ, in his glory. It was the holiness of the man shining through his humanness, his face so afire with it they were almost blinded.