We Give Our Thanks to God

Sermon | October 13, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Hope – that’s the word that comes to mind when I reflect on what it’s like to be back in this place with you. You fill me with hope for the church and its future. It is fascinating to return to a place you once knew. When you leave

The Radiance of Love in Shame-Free Community

Sermon | September 29, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. I just want to share with you today that I am witnessing the most wonderfully connected community that I have seen in a while. Wednesday nights from 6:30 till 8:00pm RELATA gathers. It is our first run at this course after our pilot program last spring that so many

How to Save Souls

Sermon | September 22, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. We are preaching on James again today. Last week, Kate led us into this book by talking about righteousness. The question that I have for us today is about the soul, and how one saves someone’s soul. That is the very last sentence in the book of James, imploring

Your Words Have Power

Sermon | September 15, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been mourning the death of a person I didn’t even know. I may have met her once at a conference, but I can’t really remember. Our worlds overlapped in this microcosm called the Episcopal Church, and we clearly knew many of

Tradition Filled with Heart

Sermon | September 1, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Today’s Gospel story has a phrase that squeezed my heart and still hasn’t let go. It’s the phrase: “the tradition of the elders.” That’s what I’d like for us to talk about today. Our lives are filled with “traditions of the elders.” I’m defining that as customs and

Sympathy, Empathy, and Compassion: A Spiritual Journey

Sermon | July 21, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Today’s Gospel reading from Mark finds Jesus telling his disciples to come and run away with him, not once, but twice. The first time is just after John the Baptist had been beheaded and the disciples had taken his body away to be buried. The second occurs just after

Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Sermon | July 7, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Why is it so hard to see things we’re not expecting? Why is it so hard to change our minds? There’s a mystery in today’s gospel. Jesus has been teaching, healing, casting out demons, gathering disciples. He’s even raised the dead—the daughter of Jairus, administrator of the Capernaum synagogue—though

Sleepless Nights

Sermon | May 5, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. I’m one of those guys who, when my head hits the pillow, am instantly out. In fact, if I were a person who snored, some might say my snoring begins the minute I lay down… if I were a person who snored. And so, I found myself the other

How to Glorify God: Negative x Negative = Positive

Sermon | March 17, 2024

To watch the sermon click here. Sometimes we have to go through a bad place to get to a better place. And that’s what I want to talk about today. Sometimes we have to run the rough waters to get to the best fishing hole…to use a river metaphor, (sitting backwards in a canoe). I

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