Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
In the end, the light always comes back. Rain and snow fall from the heavens, water the earth, and return again, bringing life. A farmer scatters seeds randomly, on all different kinds of soil, and yet the seeds still bring forth fruit, ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
The desert is a dangerous place. The wind blows, the sands shift, and people can get lost. The sun beats down in the day and it is extremely hot. And at night the temperature drops, and the cold chills even the bones. The ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
You have heard it said that you have to just buckle down and obey the rules. But I say to you, I say to you that relationship is everything. We are in the heart of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus has spoken the Beatitudes, the ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
In that society, people of different classes, different cultures, different races, simply don’t mix. That was just the way it was, the way it had always been, and the way it would always be. There might be necessary interactions ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
Have you ever sat outside at night and watched for shooting stars? They’re not easy to see, even in the middle of a meteor shower. You never know when they’re going to appear, and they never last for very long. A three second meteor is ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
O Lord, teach us to pray! We’re supposed to pray in some way, but every time we try, we lose it, we don’t do what we think we ought to do. We start worrying about our own lives, or we get focused on a particular problem, and we stop ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
The real miracle is that she walked in the door in the first place. The community is coming apart at the seams. One group refuses to talk to another, barely even acknowledge the other’s existence! Disagreements seem to be more common and far ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
“See, the home of God is among mortals!” The scene is one that we last saw just over a month ago, as part of the readings for Maundy Thursday. Jesus is in the upper room, with his disciples. They have shared a meal, or are in the ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
During Holy Week this year, several 5th and 6th graders took time from Monday to Thursday to work at several different outreach ministries here in Greensboro. One of the ones we worked at was KidsPath, the subset of Hospice that focuses on helping ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
Last weekend I took part in a retreat for some of our high school youth who are considering the Episcopal Church and deciding whether, when the Bishop comes in June, they will be confirmed in this Church. And as a part of that retreat, we asked our ...