Category Archives: Sermons
April 26, 2015 – Reflecting the Good Shepherd
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110903_001 My daughter Emily is a teacher, so I have been hearing a lot lately about the Common Core Curriculum that has been introduced into the public schools over the past couple of years. A lot of teachers, and a lot of parents – people on both sides …
April 19, 2015 – Father Joel Grigg, Ponder in Your Hearts
No text is available for this sermon. To listen, click here: 110827_001
April 12, 2015 – Our First Superpower
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110820_001 Today is traditionally called Thomas Sunday, because every year on the Sunday after Easter we read the story of Thomas the apostle, who was late to the party, and who wouldn’t or couldn’t believe the truth of the Resurrection until he had proof – until he had …
April 5, 2014, Easter Sunday – It’s Who We Are
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110813_002 Last night, we began the celebration of Easter in the dark, when we kindled the new fire and lit the Paschal candle that signifies our new life in Christ. Ir was appropriate that we began the celebration of light in darkness, because the light and joy of …
April 4, 2015, Easter Vigil – It’s Not What You’d Expect
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110813_001 Jesus died just as the Sabbath of the Passover Festival was about to begin, which was just when the sun was about to go down. If anyone had been able to think clearly what was happening at the time, they might have remembered the instructions God gave …
April 3, 2015, Good Friday – Lent Is Not About Giving Things Up – Or Is It?
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110812_001 Five years ago a woman named Sarah Gray, who was pregnant with identical twins, found out that one of her unborn sons had a serious defect that would mean he would certainly die at birth. It was still early in her pregnancy, and she had to carry …
April 2, 2015, Maundy Thursday – Loving Us to the End
There is no recording available for this sermon. I love the way this chapter of John’s gospel begins: “Before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the …
March 29, 2015, Palm Sunday – The Reading of the Passion.
There was no sermon. Here is a recording of the congregation reading the story of the Passion: 110806_001
March 22, 2015, Lent 5 – The God Who Gets His Hands Dirty
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110730_001 It is very easy and pleasant to be a gardener in the wintertime. You get to sit by the stove with a cup of tea and look through garden catalogs, and draw garden maps, and fill in order forms for seeds and plants. And the bonus is …
March 15, 2015, Lent 4 – Living with Fiery Snakes
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110723_001 If you were one of those man-on-the-street reporters, and you went around and asked random people, “How would you describe Christians, what makes a Christian different from other people?” you’d get a wide variety of answers. You would almost certainly find people who didn’t have a positive …
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 