Sermon, Palm Sunday 2026
Lee Davis • March 30, 2026
They were still looking up. We are living in the between — after the Ascension, before Pentecost. Come back to the room. The Spirit is on the way.
Read the second chapter of Acts carefully and you will notice something the Sunday school version tends to smooth over: the disciples were not ready.
Jesus says he won't leave us orphaned. But some weeks, that promise is held by faith alone. A reflection for the Sixth Sunday of Easter.
The building faces the street for a reason. A church that exists only for the people inside it has forgotten what it is for.
Stephen is about to die. He knows it. The stones are already in people's hands. And he looks up, and someone is standing. That is a claim about the nature of God
When we gather around the Eucharist table every Sunday, we are continuing a practice that was, from its very beginning, a political act.
Jesus the gentle shepherd, leading his flock. It's Good Shepherd Sunday, and we know exactly what to expect. Except this year I kept reading.
The Baptismal Covenant — those five questions asked at every baptism in the Episcopal Church, is the most demanding document most of us have ever agreed to
Every Sunday we pray a collect. A structure so carefully designed that it has been teaching people how to pray for over a thousand years.
The tomb was empty. Nobody has ever been able to explain it. And everything that follows — flows from that one inconvenient, impossible, world-altering fact.