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Pentecost Sunday
Some years ago, Episcopalians studying Congregation Development met at General Seminary in New York. Their discussion focused on five...

Father Nicholas Lang
Jun 104 min read
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Ascension Sunday
Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal, and says to the first man sitting at the bar, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The man said, "I...

Father Nicholas Lang
Jun 34 min read
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The Sixth Sunday of Easter
One of the best newspaper cartoons of all time is Calvin and Hobbes. One day Calvin and Hobbes come marching into the living room early...

Father Nicholas Lang
May 273 min read
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The Fifth Sunday of Easter
In the 1977 movie, The Turning Point starring Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, Deedee, a former ballerina, decides to leave the...

Father Nicholas Lang
May 204 min read
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The Fourth Sunday of Easter
It was Easter Sunday, and the rector was greeting the crowds after the service. One woman, who only came to church on Easter, stopped to...

Father Nicholas Lang
May 134 min read
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The Third Sunday of Easter
I’ve always held to the adage that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Truth be told, I think they are all important. One of...

Father Nicholas Lang
May 64 min read
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The Second Sunday of Easter
Michael Patrick O’Malley, Jr. opened the morning newspaper and was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died. “How many...

Father Nicholas Lang
Apr 294 min read
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The Fifth Sunday in Lent
All four of the Gospels include an account of a woman who anoints Jesus—each version somewhat different. Luke speaks of an unnamed woman...

Father Nicholas Lang
Apr 114 min read
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The Fourth Sunday in Lent
Many years ago, my younger brother ran away from home one day. He was about 11 at the time. Our father died a month before. We had sold...

Father Nicholas Lang
Apr 14 min read
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The Second Sunday in Lent
An Episcopal priest and a Baptist minister from the local churches are standing by the side of a heavily traveled road pounding a sign...

Father Nicholas Lang
Mar 184 min read
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The First Sunday in Lent
Choices. We all make them. Sometimes they are the result of temptation like in the case of four high school boys who couldn't resist...

Father Nicholas Lang
Mar 124 min read
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The last Sunday after the Epiphany
Have you ever had a dream so vivid, so intense that you wondered if you had been dreaming at all? The colors, the people, the dialogue...

Father Nicholas Lang
Mar 44 min read
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The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany
Preached by Jesus at the end of his famous Sermon on the Mount, this message is disturbing yet totally relevant for the present-day...

Father Nicholas Lang
Feb 254 min read
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Going Deeper—Sermon by Jennifer Hudson, Luke 5:1-11
https://on.soundcloud.com/fypBcLyZqUsBYtdi9 What would you do if you just got out of a volunteer shift at Beth-El Center and Jesus got...

Father Nicholas Lang
Feb 76 min read
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The Third Sunday after the Epiphany
A stalwart member of the congregation would greet the new rector after the Sunday service with the same few words: “Thank you, Father,...

Father Nicholas Lang
Jan 284 min read
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The Second Sunday after the Epiphany
This is one of my favorite passages in the New Testament and, no, it has nothing to do with great wine. Why I like it is because it shows...

Father Nicholas Lang
Jan 214 min read
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Epiphany Sunday
One of the favorite images of Christmas is that of the Magi travelling by camel through a star lit night. One brilliant star dominates...

Father Nicholas Lang
Jan 74 min read
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Holy Innocents
The Massacre of the Innocents is the biblical narrative of infanticide  by Herod the Great , the Roman-appointed King. According to the...

Father Nicholas Lang
Jan 23 min read
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Christmas Eve 2024
I have long ago come to realize that Christmas Eve is not the occasion for the preacher to offer a sermon that is full of deep...

Father Nicholas Lang
Dec 26, 20243 min read
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The Fourth Sunday of Advent
The Gospel of Luke, above all books of the New Testament, is about women. It reads as if a woman might have written it. It contains...

Father Nicholas Lang
Dec 26, 20244 min read
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