by Richard Lightsey | Aug 25, 2019 | Homilies
Isaiah 58:9b-14 58:9b If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, 58:10 if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the...
by Richard Lightsey | Aug 18, 2019 | Homilies
What happens to our lives when we have lost faith? What happens in a culture, a society, a household, to our own hearts when we have lost faith? What happens when we can no longer see a better world? What happens when we can only see the way things...
by Richard Lightsey | Aug 11, 2019 | Homilies
This concludes our late summer trilogy: The Art of Being Thankful, The Gift of Being Present; and this morning, “the Responsibility of Being Alive.” None of us were born into a beginning. We have been born into a work in progress. We have inherited...
by Richard Lightsey | Aug 4, 2019 | Homilies
I am in the middle of a three part reflection: “The art of being thankful” “The Gift of being present,” and “the Responsibility of being alive.” With this week’s reflection on my mind I have intentionally been conscious of what it means to be present. The...
by Richard Lightsey | Jul 28, 2019 | Homilies
I will give thanks, Oh God, with my whole heart, before the gods I will sing your praise. I have watched Annie create art for many years. She makes something interesting, something that tells or evokes a story out of ordinary and sundry things. It is art,...
by Richard Lightsey | Jun 23, 2019 | Homilies
In this morning’s epistle, Paul talks about the difference between doing something because you’re supposed to, and you have to, and you’re required to, and doing something because you’re compelled to, because you want to, because it is from the heart. ...
