Sermon

Preached on Sunday, March 9, 2025, the First Sunday in Lent, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. “So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O LORD, have given me” (Deuteronomy 26:10). My friends, welcome to the wilderness. After all, that’s what this season of Lent is about: the season…

Preached on Sunday, February 23, 2025, the Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. “Jesus said, ‘Love your enemies’” (Luke 6:27). To love our enemies is the Christian ideal, isn’t it? And to this ideal, we all aspire, prompted by our Lord Himself in His so-called “Sermon on the Plain,” recorded in…

Preached on Sunday, January 26, 2025, the Third Sunday after the Epiphany, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. From the eighth chapter of Nehemiah: “The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law…Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people…and when he opened it, all the people stood…

Preached on Sunday, January 12, 2025, the First Sunday after the Epiphany, the Baptism of Our Lord, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. “All the people were baptized, and…Jesus also had been baptized” (Luke 3:21). Our celebration of the feast of Christ’s Baptism today takes its place in a long and curious history. This feast day…

Preached on Sunday, January 5, 2025, the Second Sunday after Christmas, at St. Margaret’s Church, Little Rock. Before we get to work, a word of gratitude: thank you, Mary, for inviting me to preach, and thank you all for welcoming me. For those I don’t know, I’m Thomas, and I grew up here at St.…

Preached on Wednesday, December 25, 2024, Christmas Day, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock and on Sunday, December 29, 2024, the First Sunday after Christmas, at Grace Church, Anderson, South Carolina. “In the beginning was the Word” (John 1:1). Think with me for a moment on how it is that we Christians tell the Christmas story.…

Preached on Sunday, December 22, 2024, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. Our Gospel passage for today, the so-called “Visitation” of Mary to her cousin, Elizabeth, is a preacher’s treasure trove: just about anything will preach. But for today, I invite us to consider just one verse, just one tiny verse:…

Preached on Sunday, December 8, 2024, the Second Sunday of Advent, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. On this second Sunday of Advent, I preach on a verse from Paul’s letter to the Philippians: “I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the…

Preached on Sunday, November 17, 2024, the Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. Words of encouragement from the letter to the Hebrews: “Let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith…Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful”…

Preached on Sunday, November 3, 2024, the observance of All Souls’ Day, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. From Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians: “We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.” Today, my…