Harrowing Of Hell

Category: Epistles

A River of Grace

Sermon | June 21, 2026

To watch the sermon, click here. “Paul’s opponents had a point. If God’s grace is truly unceasing, unstoppable, available to every soul no matter what we do or fail to do, then their question was reasonable: Why not go on sinning if grace keeps coming? If grace is going to show up anyway, why not

Grace Names Us

Sermon | February 22, 2026

To watch the sermon click here. Jesus goes into the wilderness where he is tested by Satan. But just before this, Jesus was baptized by John in the River Jordan. Do you remember what happened immediately after Jesus was baptized? The Spirit of God came down and a voice proclaimed, “This is my Son, the

God’s Wisdom Looks Like Love

Sermon | February 1, 2026

To watch the sermon click here. “I feel like I’m drowning.” “I’m just so sad.” “It’s too much.” This is what I heard from a group of parishioners as we gathered before a meeting this past week. As I walked into the Fireside Room, they were commiserating about the constant and unrelenting stream of information

Seeing Through Tears

Sermon | November 2, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. Last Sunday, at the Come As You Are All Hallows’ Eve service, I watched as people of all ages gathered around the big wooden table in the Great Hall during the Prayers of the People. Most were in costume, and we had everything in the mix from a skeleton

You’re gonna have to Serve Somebody

Sermon | June 29, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. “For freedom Christ has set us free.” That’s the opening line in the Epistle today. There’s many ways to think about this. Bob Dylan gives us one of them in his song, You Gotta Serve Somebody. It goes like this: You may be an ambassador to England or France.

Why We Work

Sermon | May 25, 2025

To watch the sermon, click here. Paul wakes in the middle of the night with a vision—or perhaps from a dream. Either way, he is inspired to heed the request to “come over to Macedonia and help.” Paul goes; it is his job, after all. He is an evangelist for the resurrected Jesus. It is

What is God Calling you Into?

Sermon | February 10, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. The opening stanza of The Second Coming by the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats goes like this: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,

Rejoicing in Relationship

Sermon | December 15, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. These are the gloomy days in Seattle. The sun, if it appears at all, doesn’t show up until around 8:00 in the morning and then begins to disappear around 4:00 in the afternoon. There’s a persistent mist in the air, and if it’s not misting that generally means it’s