Christ the King of Peace

Sermon | November 24, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Twenty years ago, I was a student at the Episcopal seminary in Austin, Texas. During that time, I remember spending a long weekend visiting my parents in Ponca City, Oklahoma–the town where I grew up. Ponca City is what I consider to be the buckle of the Bible Belt.

Truth Revealed Through Humility and Gentleness

Sermon | August 4, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. “We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness and deceitful schemes.” (Eph 4:14). I’m quoting the Bible. Who says the Bible doesn’t speak into the reality of the world as it is today? Paul, in his

What is Truth?

Sermon | May 12, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. “What is truth?” That’s Pilate’s famous question at Jesus’s trial the day after the events in this morning’s reading from John’s gospel. Holding Jesus’s life in his hands, Pilate asks “What is truth?” A good question. And a timely question for the age in which we find ourselves. We’re

Christ the King

Sermon | November 26, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. Let’s just be honest from the start. In this country, we may admire and even be kind of fascinated by the monarchies of other countries (we’re talking about Britain here, because that’s the only one we know anything about)–while we may enjoy the pomp and ceremony of a coronation,

The Kingdom of Heaven is Like

Sermon | November 12, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. What is the Kingdom of heaven like? Is it like good seed planted in a field, maybe a mustard seed? Is it like leaven kneaded into dough? Is it like buried treasure in a field, or pearls, or jewels, or a net full of fish? Is the Kingdom of

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

To Be A Disciple of Christ

Sermon | June 25, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. I remember a picture that hung on the wall of one of the Sunday School classrooms in the church where I grew up. It was a pastoral scene. Jesus was seated on a large stone beneath a tree, a tree unlike any I was familiar with in West Virginia.

The Kingdom of God in Review

Sermon | June 18, 2023

Click here to watch the sermon. When I first came to Epiphany 15 years ago, the message I preached a lot was: the kingdom of heaven is here, right here, right now, and that is good news! Do any of you remember that? The kingdom of heaven, is also the Kingdom of God…those ideas are

We are Beatitude People

Sermon | January 29, 2023

Good morning, Epiphany. It is delightful to have you together at one service. We gather as one body because it’s our annual meeting, and all members are encouraged to be present to vote for the Vestry, and to hear what has happened this past year, and where we are headed. So, thank you for being

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