Doing something wrong feels just like doing something right, until you realize you're wrong. Jesus invites us from association to adoration: to know the forgiveness that poured out in love from the "sinful" woman's tearful eyes. 

2016 06 12 Sermon: "Roadrunners, Coyotes, And The Feeling Of Forgiveness" - 1

Sometimes the only place to share our true feelings is with the God who knows what we need before we ask. In a discussion of depression and despair from 1Kings 19, Father Paul Wheatley notes how God asks Elijah to express his pain and sorrow, and how Psalms 42-43 serve as a template for worship through pain and sorrow.

2016 06 19 "God Asks Elijah"

Is Jesus' call to discipleship a call to "those who are weary and heavy-laden" to take up Jesus' "easy yoke" and receive rest, or a costly path with no turning back: "No one who sets their hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of heaven"? The answer has everything to do with what Jesus means by "yoke" and "plow." With some help from Elijah, Elisha, Detrich Bonhoeffer and the Air Force recruitment offices, we talk about what Jesus means. 

2016 06 26 Bonhoeffer, The Air Force, The Yoke, And The Plow

In Jesus' sending of the Seventy into villages to preach, they experience and cause a total re-orientation of the world as it was known before. In this sermon on Luke 10 and 2Kings 5, Father Paul Wheatley talks about how the cities they visited, the seventy apostles themselves, and Naaman the Syrian all faced the end of the world as they knew it, and the hope of a new world founded in Christ's peace.

2016 07 03 Navajo Language, The Seventy, And The End Of The World

After the events in Dallas and our nation this week, Jesus' parable of the Good Shepherd teaches us not only to love God and our neighbor, but how to live as the church in a world gone mad... in a world on the road to Jericho.

2016 07 10 Sermon: The Road To Jericho

After the events in Dallas over the last few weeks, something has changed. Where do we go from here? In this sermon on Colossians 1:15–28 Fr. Paul Wheatley discusses how our unity in Christ is something we comprehend, aspire to, and walk in as the beginning of hope for the days to come.

2016 07 17 Sermon: Where Do We Go? The Vertical And The Horizontal

In our day, being authentic counts for everything. How can we pray authentically, while praying in words taught us by someone else?

In Luke 11, Jesus' disciples come to him as he prays and ask him to teach them to pray. In this sermon on the Lord's Prayer, Father Paul Wheatley looks at what it means to pray, to be followers of the Son of God who himself prayed, and above all what it means to follow Jesus on the road to Jerusalem and in the prayer he taught us.

2016 07 24 The Lord's Prayer, "We Are Bold To Say"

Cell phones, new cars, truck treads, and David Foster Wallace... What do we do with our stuff?
In Luke 12:34, Jesus says, "Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys." Is this just pious escapism, sour grapes, or is it an invitation to a life more fully lived.

St. Augustine's Oak Cliff