Pray Without Ceasing

Sermon | July 24, 2022

How’s your prayer life? That’s a question a good friend has asked me on many occasions. “How’s your prayer life?” he says, especially when I am going off the deep end, or worrying about what may or may not happen, or when I am not being my best self. I usually pause before I answer.

Jesus Prays for You

Sermon | May 29, 2022

I am Kelli Martin, and I have been a parishioner here at Epiphany Parish for almost 4 years, I serve on the Vestry and also as your Senior Warden. I have this friend who says he is awkward at goodbyes. He says when he gets off the phone with a family member or has to

Our Ancestor was a Wandering Foreigner

Sermon | March 6, 2022

“Arami Oved Avi” (Ah-RAM-ee Oh-VED Ah-VEE) or, as we heard it in the reading from Deuteronomy, “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor.” Today’s Old Testament lesson contains a phrase we might be tempted to skip over. After all, it sounds a lot like one of those “begat” sections of the Bible, and in any case,

Instruments of Peace

Sermon | March 2, 2022

Here we are at Ash Wednesday. The beginning of Lent. In just a moment, we will hear an Invitation to a Holy Lent, an invitation to self-examination and repentance by prayer and fasting and self-denial, and by reading and meditating on God’s Holy Word. I don’t know about you, but I am much in need

A Call to Evangelism

Sermon | January 30, 2022

Today is our annual meeting, when we gather to review what has happened this last year, to elect our leaders for the coming year, and to consider where the Holy Spirit may be leading us. Some of you know that recently we had a consultant come in to help us wonder how we shift from

The Nature of Transformation

Sermon | January 23, 2022

I am Kelli Martin and I have been a parishioner at Epiphany Parish for over 3 years. We are in the season after the Epiphany. This is the time in the liturgical calendar when we reflect on how God became incarnate, meaning when God reveals God’s self, the manifestation of the divinity of Jesus Christ.

The Importance of Context

Sermon | January 2, 2022

There is no shortage of darkness in the news: natural disasters, the pandemic, crime, homelessness. In many ways, this is nothing new. There are many dark things in the Bible – the flood, the plagues of Egypt, the suffering and death of Christ upon the Cross. But at Christmastime, we are surrounded by expressions of

Sermon Series #3 on Kingdom of God Intelligence: Trust Versus Control

Sermon | December 12, 2021

Two Sundays ago, Kelli Martin, in her sermon, talked about the necessity of facing our life. That theme was picked up at our men’s retreat last weekend by our leader, Dr. Ron David. He formed the retreat around four questions: facing God, facing ourselves, facing our neighbor, and facing the existential threats that seem to

Sermon Series #2 on Kingdom of God Intelligence: Curiosity Versus Dogmatism

Sermon | December 5, 2021

Thanksgiving dinner recently gave me cause to wonder at the unnecessary cravings that plague me, particularly around food, particularly on Thanksgiving, particularly around cheesecake, and that weird desire to eat the entire thing after having one piece. It is not a long term, high reward survival activity… But here’s the thing about cravings, they come

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