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Sermon Audio: Baptized and Beloved
Year B, First Sunday after the Epiphany, The Baptism of Jesus
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Epiphany Poem by Malcolm Guite[1] It might have been just someone else’s story, Some chosen people get a special king. We leave them to their own peculiar glory, We don’t belong, it doesn’t mean a thing. But when these three arrive they bring us with them, Gentiles like us, their wisdom might be ours; A […]
read moreSermon Audio: Christmas – You’re Drowning and God Hands You a Baby
Year B Christmas I
read moreSermon Audio: Joy is a Skill
Year B Advent 3 – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24, Canticle 16 Magnificat
read moreSermon Audio: The Apocalypse of George Bailey
Year B Advent 2 – 2 Peter 3:8-15 Yearning for Jesus’ return helps us live lives of transformation here and now.
read moreSermon Audio: You are More Than You Have Become
Year B Advent 1 – 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 The essence of repentance isn’t “feeling bad” but but bringing our hearts and minds back to who we are in Christ.
read moreSermon Audio: Survival Skill – Thankfulness
Year A Thanksgiving Day Deuteronomy 8:7-18 and Luke 17:11-19 Saying “thank you” isn’t for God’s benefit, it’s for our benefit
read moreSermon Audio: Angry Face or Full of Grace?
Year A Proper 28 Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18 and Matthew 25:14-30 “the constructive displeasure of mercy”
read moreJesus and the Canaanite Woman Sermon by Fr. Winston T. Smith
Year A, Proper 15, Jesus and the Canaanite Woman Most of you probably don’t know it, but standing before you is the president of the North Mecklenburg High School Chess Club. In 10th grade, my very first year of high school, I noticed that it was suddenly very important to belong to some kind of […]
read moreLearning to cry “Abba! Father!” Sermon by Fr. Winston T. Smith
Year A, Proper 11, Romans 8 Learning to cry “Abba! Father!” Several years ago my mother gave me an old grade school spelling book that belonged to her mother published back in 1900. In looking through it I was interested to see that it wasn’t just used to teach children to spell but to teach […]
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