Quantcast
Channel: Irreducible Minimums
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 181 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Angry

Sermon for Year B, The Third Sunday in LentBy The Rev. Torey LightcapMarch 8, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchJohn 2:13-22The Bible is the story of God, Who makes all of creation, and blesses it,   And...

View Article



Family

Sermon for Year B, Maundy ThursdayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 2, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchJohn 13:1-17, 31b-35In the name of God, my sisters and brothers, May each of us find the courage to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Shattered

Sermon for Year B, Good FridayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 3, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchThere is always a heaviness at this moment.A kind of quiet insistence, a ball in the stomach, and a knot...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

for

Markan textSermon for Year B, Easter VigilBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 4, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchMark 16:1-8Scholars pretty much concur that what you’ve just heard, in all likelihood, Is how...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Gum

Sermon for Year B, Easter DayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 5, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchMark 16:1-8My friends, I greet you all warmly this day in the name of God, And of God’s Son Jesus Christ...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Awake

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Bernardo StrozziSermon for Year B, the Second Sunday of EasterBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 12, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchJohn 20:19-31Here we are, sitting in...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Commissioned

Salvador Dali, Ascension (1958)Sermon for Year B, the Third Sunday of EasterBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 19, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchLuke 24:36b-48“...[T]hat repentance and forgiveness of...

View Article

Observation of a holy Lent 2015

In the season of Lent almost upon us, this year, I will:partake of alcohol only in sacramental wine, refraining otherwise, and reflecting on the role alcohol and other substances have played in our...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Candy

Sermon for Year B, the Last Sunday After EpiphanyBy The Rev. Torey LightcapFebruary 15, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchMark 9:2-9We just had Valentine’s Day, When cards and hearts and candy and flowers...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Boat

Sermon for Year B, Ash WednesdayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapFebruary 19, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchToday, of course, is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.Lent is six-and-a-half weeks, forty days...

View Article

Trying

Sermon for Year B, The First Sunday in LentBy The Rev. Torey LightcapFebruary 22, 2015St. Thomas Episcopal ChurchMark 1:9-15Jesus is driven out into the wilderness -- that is, the desert.He has “the...

View Article

A simple and good thing

Sermon for Year B, Proper 18By The Rev. Torey LightcapSeptember 1, 2015St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Mission, KansasMark 7:24-37In the name of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit....

View Article

Good Friday Sermon 2016

Sermon for Year C, Good FridayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapMarch 25, 2016Grace Cathedral, Topeka, KansasLections AppointedIt would be so easy to only identify with the victim Jesus in this story.Make no...

View Article


Sermon for Easter Vigil, 2016

Sermon for Year C, Easter VigilBy The Rev. Torey LightcapMarch 26, 2016Grace Cathedral, Topeka, KansasLections AppointedLet’s just get all our cards on the table.How do you even begin to name a...

View Article

Sermon for Easter Sunday 2016

Sermon for Year C, Easter SundayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapMarch 27, 2016St. Francis in the Pines Episcopal Church, Stilwell, KansasLections AppointedGood morning!Let me tell you an Easter story.When I...

View Article


Sermon for Year A, Lent 3 - Woman at the Well

Sermon for Year A, Lent 3By The Rev. Torey LightcapMarch 19, 2017St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Pittsburg, KansasJohn 4:5-42It’s a bit of a long story, but – I promise, it’ll take us somewhere. Let’s...

View Article

Sermon for Tuesday of Holy Week 2017

Sermon for Year A, Tuesday in Holy WeekBy The Rev. Torey LightcapApril 11, 2017Grace Cathedral, Topeka, KansasMark 11:15-19As the Gospel of Mark attests, any person who would disrupt The normal flow of...

View Article


Living the long obedience – an ordination sermon

Sermon for OrdinationsBy The Rev. Torey LightcapJune 17, 2017Grace Episcopal Cathedral, Topeka, KansasIn the name of God and of God’s Son, Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, Our just and true North Star,...

View Article

How I finally ended up in Kansas

The following essay was judged a Finalist entry in the Poetry Unites Kansas contest held earlier this year for essays on poetry. Of about eighty entries received, this was selected in the top six by...

View Article

Staying with Bathsheba's Grief

Sermon for Year B, Proper 12By The Rev. Torey LightcapJuly 29, 2018St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Lawrence, KansasLections AppointedFrom now through the end of August, With the exception of one...

View Article

Sermon for Year C, the Seventh Sunday of Easter

Sermon for Year C, the Seventh Sunday of EasterBy The Rev. Torey LightcapJune 2, 2019St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Clay Center, KansasLections AppointedYesterday, many of us were privileged to witness...

View Article


Sermon for Year C , Pentecost Sunday

Sermon for Year C , Pentecost SundayBy The Rev. Torey LightcapJune 9, 2019St. Francis in the Pines Episcopal Church, Stilwell, KansasOn an afternoon in the late autumn, a boy of eight climbed into his...

View Article


Sermon for Year C, Proper 9

Sermon for Year C, Proper 9By The Rev. Torey LightcapJuly 9, 2019St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Olathe, KansasJesus gathers a crowd up and he says, Got a job for you.He says, I’d like to get out to a...

View Article

An answer to 'We just want to bring in young families and grow the church'

[Please note: I originally wrote the following to appear in the Summer 2019 edition of The Harvest, a publication of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas. After receiving a number of positive comments on...

View Article

Lostness and other illusions

Sermon for Year C, Proper 19By The Rev. Canon Torey LightcapSeptember 15, 2019We probably hear these words of Jesus and equate these simple stories of lost objects  With something that is not us–...

View Article

Browsing latest articles
Browse All 181 View Live




Latest Images