The Prophets Archives - Epiphany Seattle

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.

Let Us Walk Humbly With Our God

Sermon | January 15, 2023

Let us pray: In the name of the one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. In the passage from Exodus, the Lord said to Moses, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I

We Cannot Always Live in Comfort

Sermon | November 14, 2021

I should begin by noting that today is the first time I have been invited to deliver the homily at a main service. There appears to be a paucity of preachers, so your Chancellor’s name finally came up. If any of you are newcomers, please come back next week, and things will get better. When

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

Priscilla and “What Can I Do for You?”

Sermon | October 24, 2021

I was on a Zoom call the other day with our Sunday school teachers and as I listened to their vision and energy and passion for our children and the message of Jesus Christ, I couldn’t help but think of my very early days here at Epiphany. When I came, we had no Sunday school

Feast of the Virgin Mary

Sermon | August 15, 2021

I’ve had Mary on my mind recently. I’ve been reading a book by Hans Urs von Balthazar titled Prayer. He was a Swiss theologian, who trained as a Jesuit priest, but left the order to be a more active in the world, and yet, also continuing to be a person who lived a life of

David

Sermon | August 8, 2021

In my life I have seen three versions of Michelangelo’s Statue of David. One is the original that before the pandemic millions visited each year in Florence at the Galleria dell’Accademia. The other is a stunning full-size bronze copy purchased by John Ringling to be the centerpiece of his art museum in Sarasota. It was

It’s Okay to Feel What You Feel

Sermon | February 21, 2021

Good morning Christians, seekers, and friends! How are you doing this first Sunday in Lent? This time I ask this not as a nice segue way into my sermon – be nice to the people Ruth Anne so they’ll want to listen—but because in my experience, in the average Christian year, we seem to really

Forthtellers of the Gospel

Sermon | January 17, 2021

Good morning Christians, seekers, and friends: How are you doing? Where do you land on a scale from one to five? I know we were all looking forward to this New Year and the vaccine that it promised and promises us but so far, as a parishioner recently wrote me, this new year hasn’t necessarily

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