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Sermon – The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 14) – August 10, 2025
This sermon asks what it means that “you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour,” as we hear that “faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
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This sermon finds illumination in John Henry Newman’s prayer “Stay With Me” as we so often diminish ourselves by storing up treasures rather than being rich towards God.
Read MoreSermon – The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 9) – July 6, 2025
This sermon explores how listening and invitation are intertwined with the demonstration of a contemplative practice that builds on “Be still, and know that I am God.”
Read MoreSermon – The Third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8) – June 29, 2025
This sermon explores how we live into “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” as a congregation committed to being Veteran Friendly as we engage the wisdom found in restoring warriors within a sweat lodge.
Read MoreSermon – The Second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 7) – June 22, 2025
This sermon asks how does joy conquer despair as we share the moment God invites Elijah to once again put his trust in God after wind, earthquake, and fire illuminate rather than diminish God’s call in the sound of sheer silence as the blessing he least expected and needed most.
Read MoreSermon – Trinity Sunday – June 15, 2025
This sermon takes a fluid memory that often seems more like a dream but is really an invitation to let doctrine be a door that opens to the embrace the love that is the Trinity as we experience and share God as Lover, Beloved, and Breath of Love.
Read MoreSermon – The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension – June 1, 2025
This sermon reminds us that Holy Baptism recalls what it means to believe as we set our heart on Jesus, put our whole trust in his grace and love, as we promise to follow and obey him as our Lord.
Read MoreSermon – The Sixth Sunday of Easter – May 25, 2025
This sermon reflects on how receiving the promised Advocate, another way of understanding the gift of the Holy Spirit, is very much how grace falls like rain as the parish enters into a time of preparation and promise.
Read MoreSermon – The Fifth Sunday of Easter – May 18, 2025
This sermon shares prayers and a commitment to remember that children learn what they live as we hear Jesus give us a new commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.
Read MoreSermon – The Fourth Sunday of Easter – May 11, 2025
This sermon contemplates what it means to listen when Jesus says, “My sheep hear my voice” within the framework of stability, obedience, and conversion of life as lived with humility found within The Rule of St. Benedict.
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