Harrowing Of Hell

Category: Love

Love is more than a Feeling

Sermon | March 5, 2023

This morning I want to preach about a topic that seems easy, and self-evident in the Kingdom of God, and I’m going to make it really complicated. (Typical.) The topic is love. It is a many splendored thing. It’s big and it’s sweet. It’s a playground. And it’s for puppies…It’s all you really need because

Is it About Love?

Sermon | April 3, 2022

In today’s Gospel, Mary is chastised for wasting expensive perfume when the proceeds from selling it could have been used instead to help the poor.  It is probably a familiar passage, or at least it is to me, and one that always puzzled me. The question with which Mary is berated—why not sell it and

Love is in Control

Sermon | March 20, 2022

Good morning. My name is Susan Pitchford, and I work on adult faith formation here at Epiphany. This morning I want to talk about control. Control, and how little of it we actually have. “Was he a smoker?” “Had she been drinking?” “What were they doing out at that hour?” Those are the kinds of

Face Your Life With Facts of Love

Sermon | November 28, 2021

Today is the first Sunday of Advent. For us Christians, it’s the start of our New Year, the start of the liturgical calendar. We Christians are taught that during Advent we anticipate the birth of Jesus. And we anticipate Jesus’ return. Advent is all about joy. Quietly anticipating the joy of Jesus. The joy that

What is Ruth All About?

Sermon | October 31, 2021

We heard, in today’s Old Testament lesson, the beginning of the Book of Ruth. The scene was set, the characters were introduced; the three women in the story lost their husbands; Naomi pleaded with her two daughters-in-law to stay in Moab and find themselves new husbands in their own country while she returned to the

Thoughts and Prayers and…

Sermon | September 5, 2021

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims.  Our thoughts and prayers are with the bereaved. Our thoughts and prayers are with the hungry. Our thoughts and prayers are with the homeless. “Thoughts and prayers”: a very common phrase these days.  We hear about thoughts and prayers for Haiti; thoughts and prayers for Black Lives

Signs in the Time of COVID

Sermon | July 25, 2021

Good morning Christians, Seekers, and Friends! Happy Sunday everyone! I hope that today you will find the occasion to rejoice in this day that the Lord has made and this season of summer 2021 that we are already a little over a month into… I know sometimes when something miraculous happens—like the creation of vaccines

Grace of God

Sermon | May 9, 2021

Good morning Christians, Seekers, and Friends: We live in a bubble of grace. While we may not always recognize it, each and every cell in our body—each and every hair on our head is not only surrounded by, but made of, God. Will you do me a favor? For just a minute will you close