The Necessity of Hope: The War in Israel & Palestine

Sermon | October 15, 2023

To watch the sermon, click here. Good morning. This is the first time you’ve heard a male voice from the pulpit in a while who doesn’t have a British accent. I’m feeling a little insecure about that. Nevertheless, we will persevere, with hope that you can see me beyond my middle aged, mid-western, white guy

God’s Good Grace

Sermon | October 8, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. My name is Lee, and along with my wife Debbie, we’ve been coming to Epiphany for just over three years. I am going to talk to you about why Debbie and I make our largest annual donation to Epiphany, but I’m also going to pepper it with personal

Laborers in the Vineyard

Sermon | September 24, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. Are you envious because I am generous? In the name of… Good morning! It is a joy to be with you today. I bring you greetings from the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York – known more colloquially as York Minster. I have had the great

Our Everyday Cross

Sermon | September 3, 2023

To watch the sermon, click here. Today’s story has me thinking about the cross. It is ubiquitous in our lives. Here in church, the cross is everywhere: we make the sign of the cross before the Gospel is read; before we settle in to hear the sermon; before and after we take communion; during the

The Transfiguration: Jesus’ Humanity

Sermon | August 6, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. What a day for a hike, huh? By now the disciples are used to Jesus going off on his own, to pray or whatever (which shows definitively that Jesus was an introvert, right?). But this time he’s changing it up a bit, taking three close friends with him, up

Embraced by Love: The Intercession of the Holy Spirit

Sermon | July 30, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. Good morning. Today, let me tell you what I know about love. When I was being interviewed for the position of Associate Rector, there was an interview panel of 5 people. We sat in the Fireside room. Each person had a list of questions that they asked me. We

The Lord is in this Place

Sermon | July 23, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. How does God bring heaven to earth, and earth to heaven? In our reading from Genesis this morning, we have the famous story of Jacob’s ladder. The context: Isaac and Rebekah have two sons: Esau the elder twin, has been a good kid, but Jacob is a bad boy

Listen. A Sower Went out to Sow

Sermon | July 16, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. I’ve heard the Parable of the Sower more times than I can count, and I’ll bet many of you have too. And I almost always hear the parable as being about me. You know, what kind of soil am I? Am I rocky? Am I shallow? Am I full

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.

Category: Spiritual Formation