Category Archives: Sermons
February 9, 2014, Epiphany 5 – A Call to Compassion
To listen to this sermon click here: 130813_001 The passage from Matthew’s gospel that we just read is part of the teaching we call the “Sermon on the Mount”. Jesus has sat down on the top of a hill to teach, and his disciples, his students, have come and gathered around him to hear him. …
January 26, 2014, Epiphany 3 – Lights in the Land of the Living
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130729_001 Only the outline is available for this sermon: praying the collect – asking big things – Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ 1. today we ask to do as the fishermen did – to leave behind what we …
January 19, 2014, Epiphany 2 – No More Hiding
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130722_001 “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.” In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit… Every week, when we celebrate the Eucharist, we consecrate the bread and the wine, asking the Holy Spirit to …
January 12, 2014, Epiphany 1 – The Mystery of Humility
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130715_001 It is a very hard thing to feel helpless. When we are very sick, or in recovery from surgery, there are times when we can’t do anything at all for ourselves. We don’t like it at all – that feeling of helplessness and dependency is often worse …
January 5, 2014, Epiphany – Bringing It All Back
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130708_001 Yesterday Irene was all ready to generously give of her time and energy by taking down the big tree in the Parish Hall. I asked her to wait, though, because the Christmas season isn’t over until the Feast of the Epiphany, which technically means not until tomorrow. …
December 8, 2013, Advent 2 – Prep Work for the Messiah
To listen to this sermon, click here: This Thanksgiving – just before the Plague struck our house – we had a wonderful dinner with family and friends, all of us stuffed into our not-so-big dining room, using every chair in the house (with small people on the wobblier chairs that we don’t usually use) with …
December 1, 2013, Advent 1 – The Day Is At Hand
No text is available for this sermon. To listen to the recording, click here: 130603_001
November 24, 2013, Pentecost 27 – The King on the Cross
To listen to this sermons, click here: 130527_001 I think we could make a good argument for saying that the Episcopal Church is the best for beautiful worship. Just look around you – like every Episcopal Church I have ever seen, our little building is lovely, the windows, and the wood, and the hangings and …
November 17,2013, Pentecost 26 – This Is Not the End
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130520_001 There are events that hit us really hard, things that strike at the core of who we are. 9/11 was like that – we remember where we were when we heard, how we felt. What if it had been the White House that was destroyed – or …
November 10, 2013, Pentecost 25 – Glory Worth Waiting For
To listen to this sermon click here: 130513_001 I KNOW that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold and not another. Those …
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