Have you ever been sailing? Do you know that feeling when you are making your way out of the channel into a harbor, uncertain of how to reach your destination? As someone who has spent some time on a sailboat, I know that in order to get to the harbor, you have to see where…

In the Gospel according to Matthew, Jesus calls a child, puts him among the disciples, and says to them, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 18:3 NRSV). A scant few centuries later, a twelve-year-old girl, Agnes, lived in the Roman Empire…

As we wake up every morning, as we drive to and from work, as we work out at the gym, and as we go throughout our days, what do we often hear? Each Sunday as we come together to worship the Lord, what frames our services? You guessed it: music. Music serves some distinct purposes…

Bishop Brewer’s homily March 18, 2015 by Episcopal Florida   “Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went.”Valued, protector, one brave man daring in the midst of the threats that his child could be killed, Joseph and his family made the pilgrimage to…

Keeping your faith private, what you are left with is an empty space, frittering your life away with needless pursuits. You can taste everything there is in the world. But we are called to be public with our faith.

The Spirit of God: He made the world; He has control over the world. In our reading today, the heavens are torn open and the Spirit of God comes out like a jet plane. But when the Spirit gets to Jesus, it’s like a dove. God sometimes comes in great power, like a jet plane.…

Bishop Gregory Brewer, Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida, at Ash Wednesday Eucharist, Feb. 18, 2015. How complete must our turning be, when we are called to turn to God? To come to Ash Wednesday, where we are called to repent? That’s not an easy thing, because it raises for me so many unanswerable questions. What…

Sermon at Coventry, Ocala, Feb. 15, 2015 The Transfiguration: Something had to prepare the disciples — and us — for what was about to happen. LISTEN TO THE FULL SERMON IN .MP3 FORMAT 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this…

Hebrews 12.7-29 7 Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline? 8If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children. 9Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us,…

 Bishop’s Address to the 46th Annual Convention  of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida By the Rt. Rev. Gregory O. Brewer Jan. 24, 2015, Orlando, FL When I think of the Diocese of Central Florida, the words that immediately come to mind are Paul’s opening words in the Letter to the Philippians: “I thank my…