Welcoming back the Casady students from their Christmas Break with reflections on a peculiar Nordic winter sport called "Wild Ice Skating." Watch the following video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3O9vNi-dkA of this strange practice and then listen to Fr. Youmans Chapel Talk.  Isaiah 6-:1-6

To say that Jesus is bread is absurd. But to say that he is NOT bread, is a different kind of sadness all-together. A sermon given at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in downtown OKC from Exodus 16 and John 6. For the full text go to BlessedtoBless.us.

Homily from the early morning Eucharist at Casady School, from Fr. Tim Sean Youmans, from Matthew 18:15-20.  Jesus said, “If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”

A sermon given at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Oklahoma City on July 16, 2017.  Matthew 13:1-9,18-23. Jesus' disciples ask him, "Why do you teach using parables?" Maybe another way of asking that is, 'Why don't you just say what you mean to say and not make it so vague?" Jesus' answer is curious, even confounding.

Sermon given at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral on May 28, 2017.  Acts 1:6-14. There is an understanding in Christian thought that when we are fully in God's presence we will be fully changed. It begs this notion: "If that is who we shall be, then that is who we ought to be." Jesus' disciples want to know when God will force creation to take such a shape. Do you ever wonder?

Sermon given at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in OKC on the second Sunday of Easter, April 23 2017. Thomas' doubt has been characterized as a flaw of temperment, and Jesus does seem to chastise him. But is doubt under those conditions surprising? The temporal (body) and the spirit are not so inseparable, and Thomas may be the victim of that symbiotic reality.

Easter Sermon given from Church of the Resurrection in OKC.  Is Heaven real? No matter the experiences reported and the conjectures made, there may still be a part of you that wonders at the reality of the resurrection. Jesus told the thief on the cross, "This day you will be with me in paradise." But what was Jesus taught as a child?

(Sermon begins at the 38 sec mark). Good Friday Sermon from St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in OKC. You can learn about ideas, but experiential knoweldge is more elusive, a grace given by God. Perhaps this is ultimately the way we must learn about the meaning of the cross and the sacrifice of Jesus.

Manipultion is a skill set, and if you are being particularly optimistic about human nature, could be a starting place for benevolent leadership. If we are to be leaders who have the mind of Christ, how do we go about setting that formation into motion? Sermon given on the 3rd Sunday of Epiphany at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Oklahoma City, on Matthew 4:12-23 and I Corinthians 1:10-18.

Conservative Jewish tradition holds that G-d remains nameless, and is reffered to as "the Name" or "that which name may not be uttered." So God interacts, but does so intermittently, what John Dominic Crossan calls "asserstion and subversion." But when God becomes flesh, he takes on a name. Yeshua, which means "God saves."  A sermon given by Fr. Tim Sean Youmans on the Feast of the Holy Name, at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral Oklahoma City. Numbers 6:22-27, Galatians 4:4-7, Luke 2:15-21 and Psalm 8.