Lazarus and Grief

Sermon | March 26, 2023

Epiphany Parish, Seattle The Rev. Lex Breckinridge Church Year A 3/26/2023 • Lent 5 John 11:1-41 This morning we walk with Jesus as he meets three of his best friends, Lazarus and Lazarus’s two sisters, Martha and Mary. On Saturday, April 1, we’ll observe the Orthodox Feast of St Lazarus where Doyt will share with

The Solid Ground on Which We Stand

Sermon | December 24, 2022

Merry Christmas Eve! I’m glad to see you here this evening. For some of you it may be the first time at Epiphany. Welcome. For many of you this is your spiritual home, and I am glad to be on this journey with you. There may even be a few of you for whom this

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

Thanksgiving

Sermon | November 24, 2022

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! It’s a joy to be with you this morning at Epiphany, my first Thanksgiving as a priest! And as you hear me preach and as we get to know one another better, you’ll get a sense of how important family and community are to me. Each

Veteran’s Day–Living our Values

Sermon | November 13, 2022

I want to start today with the story that comes to mind because of Veteran’s Day, which coincides with Remembrance Day in Great Britain, hence the poppy I am wearing this morning. (I’ll say more about that in a bit.) Both days were instituted to remember war and the people who fought in them. Eight

Be Transformed

Sermon | October 23, 2022

Think back to your school days for a moment—if that’s not too scary for you. You’re sitting in a classroom either with rows of desks or in a large lecture hall. There’s a teacher standing in front of the classroom, his back to a screen, making a power point presentation, or, in my school days

Who Will Account for You?

Sermon | September 18, 2022

When I was growing up, my dad had this ritual that he would make my sister and me say every time he drove us to school. Right before we got out of the car he would say, “Okay now, what’s your Formula for Success?” My sister and I would recite it. This is what we

The Joy of Missing Out

Sermon | September 4, 2022

Epiphany, it has been a real gift to share these summer Sundays with you. When I returned here in July, I walked into the Christie House and saw Diane Carlisle working. She looked up from what she was doing and said simply, “Welcome home.” She wasn’t just being nice. What I have experienced of you

Table Talk

Sermon | August 28, 2022

Have you ever noticed how often in the Gospels Jesus takes “the stuff” of ordinary life and reframes it, reimagines it — so that somehow the mundane has cosmic meaning; the everyday reflects the eternal? A woman is looking for a coin that she has lost, and she will not rest until she finds it.

Category: Hope & Resurrection