AI Sermon Series #2: The Ontological Nature of a Person

Sermon | May 14, 2023

Click here to watch the sermon Last Sunday we learned from Peter that we have a title: the Royal Priesthood. It is the title of humanity, shared by all humanity, universally. In the age of generative artificial intelligence being human is becoming our common denominator, our core connection, and hopefully, our top priority. That may

AI Sermon Series #1: AI and the Human Identity–The Royal Priesthood

Sermon | May 7, 2023

Click here to watch the sermon Good morning, today we step into the realm of artificial intelligence, as the first sermon in our series about who we are because of who our God is. Artificial intelligence is big, and it is something we are hearing a lot about, not because it’s a fad, but because

The God who Makes, Moves, Purposes, and Renews

Sermon | April 8, 2023

As we sit in darkness having heard the Cantor sing: “This is the night…” we remember. This is the night we remember who our God is. We tell the stories about what our God has done. We remember that it is God who saves us. The song we just sang makes the point: Surely it

We are the Samaritans

Sermon | March 12, 2023

Who were the Samaritans? We’ve all heard Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan, the religious outsider who compassionately cared for the poor man beaten and left for dead in the ditch. The man who had been avoided by the religious insiders, the Priest and the Levite, because they thought he might be dead and coming

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

God is Calling Us to Mission

Sermon | January 15, 2023

Good Morning! It’s good to be with you today. Thank you for having me. It is truly a blessing to be with Epiphany Parish on this Second Sunday after the Epiphany as we recognize the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, we also celebrate our shared ministry in Haiti through the Haiti Micah

Greed for God

Sermon | July 31, 2022

When reading today’s Gospel, one movie that came to mind. Just one. Remember that movie Wall Street? I know many of us in this room and online remember the movie Wall Street with Michael Douglas that came out in the late 1980s. His character, Gordon Gekko was a corporate raider, a businessperson who specialized in

Stories to Live By

Sermon | June 19, 2022

It is a profoundly human impulse. We want to know how the big story, the meta story, touches our story, How the global becomes local becomes personal. We want to know how the story is our story. It was three years ago, It was Monday in Holy Week, When some of us and scores of

God is Doing a New Thing

Sermon | May 15, 2022

There’s a line in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where the four children have just entered Narnia and are talking to the beavers. And Mr. Beaver says, “Aslan is on the move.” Aslan, of course, is the Christ character, and the children are brought to Narnia to be part of his redemptive

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