Services and Sermons
July 19, 2020 – Sermon and Service
So, we begin with Paul: I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
July 12, 2020 – Sermon and Service
The good news is that this anxiety about disease and the turmoil about racism both can tools in the hand of our divine gardener to break up our packed earth, rake out the stones, and pull up the thorns, so that our hearts can receptive to the words, the blessings, and the love of God which is broadcast so liberally upon our lives.
July 5, 2020 – Sermon and Service
God loves us, everyone of us, no exceptions. And the yoke Jesus invites us to shoulder are to love God and love each other, no exceptions.
June, 28, 2020 – Sermon and Service
God loves you. God loves me. God loves everyone. Even the people we don’t, even the ones that cause damage to the world, even the ones who harm us. God loves everyone. No exceptions.
June 21, 2020 – Sermon and Service
I am sick and tired of this pandemic. I am sick and tired of racism and the abuse of power. I am sick and tired of polarization. I am sick and tired of death. And I am sick and tired of talking about them.
June 14, 2020 ~ Sermon and Service
We proclaim the possibility of a new and better world for which God yearns. And we dedicate ourselves to helping to build that new world. A world of justice, where authority and power are used to protect the weak from the strong, the poor from the rich, and the minority from the majority
June 7, 2020 – Sermon and Service
In this time of COVID19 and the response to the killing of George Floyd, it may seem irrelevant to be focusing on the arcane doctrine of the Trinity. Is that not merely a flight from the difficult issues of the day? Or might thinking about the Trinity provide a context or lens through which we might see our current context more clearly?
May 31, 2020 – Sermon and Service
Jesus said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” In the Name of God. Amen.
May 24, 2020 – Sermon and Service
“Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” In the Name of the one, holy, and undivided Trinity. Amen.
May 17, 2020 – Sermon and Service
So, this time of pandemic is an opportunity to walk the Purgative Way and lay aside what is unnecessary or unhelpful to us.
May 10, 2020 – Sermon and Service
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. We have no better friend or guide.
May 3, 2020 – Sermon and Service
We learn that voice through reading the Gospels and through talking to Jesus ourselves. And don’t be surprised if in following that voice we find ourselves sharing our resources with our neighbors breaking bread with glad and generous hearts, and praising God.
April 26, 2020 – Sermon and Service
So as we endure this time of disease and death, into what new thing is God refining us?
April 19, 2020 – Sermon and Service
In the end we practice hope, courage, and love. It’s the Christian thing to do.
April 12, 2020 – Sermon and Service
Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen, indeed! Alleluia! Amen.
March 29, 2020 Sermon and Service
COVID19 is commanding much of our attention this Lent. Indeed, it almost seems as if protecting ourselves and our loved ones from infection and helping our neighbors in any way we can has become our Lenten discipline
March 1, 2020
Why would God not want us to know good and evil? Isn’t the ability to judge between good and evil a good thing? Are we not supposed to make moral judgements? How can we be good human beings if we don’t know what is good and what is bad?
February 23, 2020
When Jesus was baptized, there was a voice from heaven that said, “This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.” This marked the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry.
February 16, 2020
Moses offers us a choice: life or death, blessing or curse. “Choose life!” he exhorts.
February 9, 2020
Well, that’s a nice thing for Jesus to say about us. Then come the implications. We cannot lose our flavor. We have to shine for the world. He goes on to say that he did not come to abolish the law or the prophets; he came to fulfill them. Fulfilling both the law and the prophets is a tricky thing, for there is a tension between the commandments and the prophets who bring the word of God to the people of God.
November 10, 2019
The Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost E. Bevan Stanley November 10, 2019 Proper 27, Year C, RCL Haggai 1:15b-2:9 Psalm 17:1-9 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Luke 20:27-38 Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to God all of them are alive. In the Name of the Father and of the […]
November 3, 2019
The Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost E. Bevan Stanley November 3, 2019 Proper 26, Year C, Track 1 Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-42 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12Luke 19:1-10 “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.” In the Name […]
November 1, 2019
All Saints Day E. Bevan Stanley November 1, 2019 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. What is a saint? A saint is a holy person. The word “saint” comes from the Latin “sanctus.” And “holy” means set apart for God’s purposes. It seems […]
September 22, 2019
The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost E. Bevan StanleySeptember 22, 2019Proper 20, Year C, RCL, Track 1 Jesus said, “No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.” In the name […]
September 15, 2019
The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost E. Bevan StanleySeptember 15, 2019Proper 19, Year C, RCL Jesus said, “There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous person who need no repentance.” In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Welcome to […]
September 8, 2019
The Thirteeenth Sunday after Pentecost E. Bevan StanleySeptember 8, 2019Proper 18, Year C, Track 1Jeremiah 18:1-11Philemon 1-21 Luke 14:25-33 From the Gospel: Whoever comet to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. In the Name of the Father and […]
September 1, 2019
The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost E. Bevan StanleySeptember 1, 2019Proper 17, Year C From the Prophet Jeremiah: Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate, says the Lord, for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that […]