Remember Who You Are

Sermon | June 22, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. Today’s story may seem like an odd story. It’s hard to know exactly what’s going on this man. We do know that he’s in distress, and he’s been that way for a long time. He lives underground, in the tombs, where it was dark…maybe the only light that he

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

Darkness and Light

Sermon | December 29, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. “In Him was life, and the life was the light of all people. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” The gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke might be called the journalistic gospels: what happened, to whom, why, and with what consequences?

Jesus and the Answer we Didn’t Expect

Sermon | July 28, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Our gospel today is a two-parter: Jesus feeding the five thousand, and Jesus walking on the water. The latter is told in three of the gospels, all except Luke. The miraculous feeding is told in all four. So these stories are important to the collective memory of the early

God in the Chaos

Sermon | June 23, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Why is there pain in the world? Why is there suffering? Why do bad people harm good people? Why am I suffering? O Lord, what did I do to deserve this? We’ve all asked ourselves these questions, haven’t we? Maybe more than once, and we aren’t the first. These

Known and Loved

Sermon | April 21, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Last Sunday, Doyt preached a fine sermon on hope. He described Epiphany as being a community of hope and all of us as being people of hope. Being a people of hope means to be unreconciled to the suffering of the world, said Doyt. It means not to live

It Was All Set in Motion on this Night

Sermon | March 28, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Tonight we begin the Triduum. One play in three acts: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday. The resurrection will come, but in this three act play, Jesus reveals the pattern that we know as the Paschal mystery, namely: there is Nno resurrection without death. There is no fast

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

Being on the Right Side of History

Sermon | November 5, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. Good morning. Welcome to the feast of All Saints. I love this celebration. There are children being baptized today. What a blessing to see the continuity of faith play out through the decision by Will and Bailey, Jeremy and Erica, Kasey and Evan, to name, honor, and give thanks

Category: Human Identity & Purpose