The following are excerpts of a sermon given recently at Church of the Apostles by the Rev. David Harper: In “The Great Omission,” Dallas Willard challenges the American church’s evangelical focus to ...

Sunday, June 26, is the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21; Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; Galatians 5:1, 13-18; Luke 9:51-62. Today’s Gospel portrays through the life ...

To say that modern America is looking for Christians who live like Jesus is an understatement. In politics, art, music, economics and even our local libraries, there is a debate playing out about ...

"Then He said to them all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me’" (Luke 9:23). This Bible verse is from the Gospel of Luke, one of the ...

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion is rich in symbolism, liturgical pageantry and an extra Gospel passage at the beginning of mass. This year the Sunday liturgies draw from cycle C readings, which ...

When daughter Katie was 5 years old, she started taking a shower instead of a bath. As she went to take a shower she said, “I used to be a little mushroom and I didn’t like showers but now I do.” ...

I think we can gather from our listening to the Scriptures this morning that the message today is about being a disciple of Jesus -- our call to follow him -- and maybe some of us are somewhat like ...

In the Word column for Easter Sunday, I posed the question, “What if you believe in the resurrection but don’t understand it?” In today’s Gospel, Luke offers answers: be patient, pay attention to how ...