Mark Whittall

It is Trinity Sunday. And the Trinity is all about … us. Maybe you thought I would say that the Trinity is all about God. Well, I’m not...

Have you ever wanted to time travel? To have one of those time machines like you see in the movies that can transport you to another...

Life is a tug of war between testing and trust. When you are in the wilderness, will you test or will you trust? And in whom will you...

What was Jesus like? That seems like a good question for those of us who call ourselves followers of Jesus, those of us who, at least in...

This is a great day! All Saints. Baptisms. It doesn’t get much better than this. There is nothing better than being here with all you...

Today’s gospel from Luke picks up on the text that we read two weeks ago, Luke’s account of Jesus’ baptism. You’ll recall that after...

What does it mean to be baptized? Seems like a good question for today as we gather to celebrate the baptism of Wendy, something we’re...

It matters how we begin. The gospel, the good news, begins in the wilderness. Great writers know that beginnings matter. Beginnings set...

“Jesus was in the wilderness for forty days; … and he was with the wild beasts.” What's up with that? What’s up with the wild beasts? As...

There are moments that matter. Moments where we no longer think of time as 10am on a Sunday morning, but rather we think of critical...