by Steve Hedrick | Apr 7, 2015 | Text Sermons
From the time that Christianity was legalized in the Roman Empire with the Edict of Milan in 313 A.D., pilgrimages have been made to the Holy Land by the faithful. The climax of every pilgrimage to the Holy Land is walking the Via Dolorosa. The pilgrimage always...
by Steve Hedrick | Apr 3, 2015 | Text Sermons
I was 29 years old. Linda, Michael, and I had moved to Nashotah, Wisconsin, about a month and a half earlier. I was sitting in the Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin at Nashotah House. It was a Thursday night during the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, during which I...
by Steve Hedrick | Mar 30, 2015 | Text Sermons
In about a half hour’s time we have shouted “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,” hailing Jesus as our King as he enters the Holy City of Jerusalem. We have recalled Jesus’ arrest and his mockery of a trial. And within...
by Steve Hedrick | Mar 23, 2015 | Text Sermons
I appear before you clean-shaven. Yes, my month of deep humiliation from losing the chili cook-off to Fr. David is over. It really ended up being an interesting exercise, though. I learned that I am not a very gracious loser, or perhaps better put, you learned that I...
by Steve Hedrick | Mar 16, 2015 | Text Sermons
This Sunday is about the halfway point in Lent and you notice the flowers on the altar, and the bit more upbeat music today. Today is known as refreshment or rose Sunday. Its intent is to be a lessening of the Lenten disciplines—to give us a breather as it were. Now I...