Everyone Needs a Truth Teller

Sermon | July 10, 2022

This morning I’m going to invite you to spend a few minutes with a cranky old man. No, not me. I’m generally pretty good-natured, or at least I try to be. No, the cranky old man I want you to spend some time with this morning is named Amos. He runs a flock of sheep

A Life of Downward Mobility

Sermon | July 3, 2022

He had our attention from his first sentence, which isn’t something you can say about every graduation speaker or every graduation speech. But he started this way: “I wish for you a life of downward mobility.” Many of us thought we had misheard him. We turned to the people next to us to check. Surely,

For the Rest of Time

Sermon | June 26, 2022

She was sure that he was the man for her. After six years of dating, she knew down to her bones that he was right, that they were good together. But each time she would hint around the marriage question, each time the “m-word” came up, she received the same answer: “I’m just not sure

Trinity Sunday

Sermon | June 12, 2022

This Gospel presents the Trinity as a way of understanding God for, with, and in us and of understanding ourselves for, with, and in God as siblings (1:12-13) who have seen what it means to be children of God in Jesus (1:14) We are assigned this Gospel today, because it is Trinity Sunday. Now, I

Technology and the Feast of Pentecost

Sermon | June 5, 2022

9,000 years ago bricks were invented, and they are still around today. I have no idea how many bricks make up these walls, but I do know these bricks define this sacred space, as a place set apart. Without bricks the windows would not be held in place, and the ceiling would not vault overhead.

Good Friday

Sermon | April 15, 2022

Good evening. My name is Susan Pitchford, and I work on adult faith formation here at Epiphany. “Good” Friday? Seriously? People often want to know, why do we call this day “good”? It’s a day of tragedy, of injustice, a day of suffering and darkness and death. What’s so good about that? Well, the short

The Great Absurdity

Sermon | April 10, 2022

Today’s Palm Sunday reading always distracts me. There Jesus is with his disciples, and he asks two of them to go to a particular house, and retrieve a colt for him that has never been ridden. He knows the one he wants, even saying to his disciples, “If anyone questions you, tell them the master

Going Down and Being Lifted Up

Sermon | February 20, 2022

As many of you know I am a jogger. That is what I call it. My son says I look more like a wounded man struggling to get home; particularly when I’m going uphill. Which is why he has forbidden me from running up Prep Hill, near his school, particularly when students are coming in

Sermon Series #3 on Kingdom of God Intelligence: Trust Versus Control

Sermon | December 12, 2021

Two Sundays ago, Kelli Martin, in her sermon, talked about the necessity of facing our life. That theme was picked up at our men’s retreat last weekend by our leader, Dr. Ron David. He formed the retreat around four questions: facing God, facing ourselves, facing our neighbor, and facing the existential threats that seem to

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