Category Archives: Sermons
March 8, 2015, Lent 3 – Beyond Bingo
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110716_001 A church that we attended a long time ago once found itself in a dilemma. We had a wonderful young woman working with our youth group. And this young woman’s mother, who wasn’t even a member of the church, gave a gift to the church, a beautiful …
March 1, 2015, Lent 2 – Come and Die
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110709_001 There is a scene in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” that is, I think, one of the best bits of acting I have ever seen. I think about it often, though the scene is probably less than a minute long. I’m sure pretty much everyone here …
February 22, 2015, Lent 1 – Resistance Is Not Futile
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110702_001 It is a very important and awesome thing to contemplate the full meaning of the Incarnation – what it really means to us that God had skin and bones and blood, that he ate and drank, that he got tired and had to sleep, that he got …
February 18, 2015, Ash Wednesday – Holy Selfishness
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110629_001 It is a common misunderstanding that being religious, or being spiritual, or just being a good person, is all about being unselfish – by which we mean that it’s all about being kind of mean to yourself, denying yourself things that you really like or really want, …
February 15, 2015, Ashes to Ashes and Dust to … Life
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110625_001 Jesus took Peter and James and John, the core group of his small circle of disciples, up onto a mountaintop to be his witnesses when he was revealed in his glory – when he sort of set aside the cloak of his humanity for a moment, and …
February 8, 2015 – Epiphany 5 – Restoring the One Love
Unfortunately there is no recording available for this sermon. My son Isaac and his wife, Christina, have moved into a boat – a 32 foot sailing boat named the “One Love”, where they have been living with their 3-year-old daughter Sofia and a few cats and dogs. It’s a beautiful boat, with very nice woodwork …
February 1, 2015 – Something New
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110611_001 After Jesus had called Peter and Andrew and James and John, they all went into the fishing village of Capernaum, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and Jesus preached a sermon. And besides that, he also cast an unclean spirit out of a …
January 25, 2015 – Fishing with My Dad
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110604_001 One of my most precious memories from childhood is a morning I spent with my Dad when I was nine or ten years old. Our family sometimes rented a cabin in Meramec State Park for a weekend getaway when we kids were little; my parents weren’t really …
January 18, 2015 – The Story Retold
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110528_001 It is a very human thing to re-tell stories. We do it all the time. When my children were little, like all parents I used to tell them stories at bedtime. Sometimes we read chapter books together, but a lot of times I would tell the old …
January 11, 2015 – The Day God Showed Up
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110521_001 According to any kind of human logic, the moment of God’s appearing in the world should have been at the pinnacle of human virtue and holiness. when people had finally reached high enough or became wise enough, or offered enough sacrifices, or performed enough acts of goodness, …
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 