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Advent I: Sermon Summary and Reflection Questions

News | December 1, 2024

In this week’s sermon, Doyt uses a personal story about an airport misadventure to illustrate the importance of being present and attuned to the moment, especially during the Advent season. While traveling through Madrid, he recounts how his assumptions about a fellow passenger’s destination led him astray, causing him to run through the wrong terminal

Advent 1 Summary

Let Christ’s Light Shine

Sermon | December 31, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. Merry Christmas! I love to say “Merry Christmas” throughout the twelve days of Christmas. At home, we continue to practice our family tradition of decorating our tree on Christmas Eve and taking it down on Epiphany. And, although we’ve not embraced the practice of giving a gift on each

Joy to the World

Sermon | December 17, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. Good Morning. We are in the 3rd week of Advent. We have lit the pink candle…and we are full of joy, Right? It is Gaudete Sunday. Why do we call it Gaudete? Well, because we are Episcopalians and we like words like undercroft and ciborium. Actually, Gaudete is the

Hope and Joy

Sermon | December 4, 2022

We delivered Desmond to college this fall. As we crisscrossed the campus, side by side with other parents, lugging the carefully chosen belongings of our children up a flight or two or three to the dorm rooms, that would be their new homes…something stirred in me. Watching the young people meeting each other for the

The Visitation, the Magnificat

Sermon | December 19, 2021

Good morning. My name is Susan Pitchford, and I am Epiphany’s “Off-site Anchorite.” It’s a deliberately absurd title, but essentially I’m here to support the spiritual formation of members of the parish. If you’d like to know more, let’s talk. Advent is the time when we’re supposed to be waiting in quiet expectation, right? I

Face Your Life With Facts of Love

Sermon | November 28, 2021

Today is the first Sunday of Advent. For us Christians, it’s the start of our New Year, the start of the liturgical calendar. We Christians are taught that during Advent we anticipate the birth of Jesus. And we anticipate Jesus’ return. Advent is all about joy. Quietly anticipating the joy of Jesus. The joy that

Let it Be

Sermon | December 20, 2020

Good morning Christians, seekers, and friends! One of the things I most appreciate about our God is that God, my creator, really loves the real “me.” God is a down-to-earth, lover of all humanity and creation kind of God, who, even though I have spent years trying to live up to my idea of what

God Loves the Small Things

Sermon | December 13, 2020

Something very small is about to take place. Something small, yet personally significant, at least to the parents, Mary and Joseph. A baby is going to be born. Certainly, in their hearts, there is a stirring, there is hope.  In their imagination and conversation, they speculate and anticipate. Both have had dreams and visions around