Sermon Archive

Sermon Archive

20 Apr 2025

EasterApril 20, 2025Luke 24.1-12 I want you to take a journey with me back to President’s Day 2025. It is a decently comfortable day outside, a little chilly, but not awful. We are only a couple of days out from Jim Cantore levels of snow apparently, and I have one final task that I need to get done before the house goes on the market on Thursday: I have to get the leaves in the backyard bagged up. Full confession,…

13 Apr 2025

Palm SundayApril 13, 2025Luke 19.28-40 Let me take you back almost nine months, to a basketball arena in New Orleans. It’s the first full night of the Gathering, and our youth have had a day. After a disastrous accompaniment morning that was just all kinds of shades of not good, we had then experienced penguins and stingrays and butterflies at the aquarium, hauled all the way across the city for a several hours long rehearsal for our mass cast performance,…

30 Mar 2025

FAITH JOURNEY During Lent, we invite members of our congregation to share their faith journey. Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these – Matthew 19:14 Hi.  My name is Jacob and I’m an Episcopalian.  I’m not a wolf in sheep’s clothing or anything.  It’s just the way I was raised and seemed like an important detail.  I guess there’s some structural and theological differences between the Episcopal and Lutheran…

23 Mar 2025

FAITH JOURNEY During Lent, we invite members of our congregation to share their faith journey. Transcripts of these presentations are not available.

16 Mar 2025

FAITH JOURNEY During Lent, we invite members of our congregation to share their faith journey. Transcripts of these presentations are not available.

09 Mar 2025

Faith Journey During Lent, we invite members of our congregation to share their faith journey. Transcripts of these presentations are not available.

02 Mar 2025

TransfigurationMarch 2, 2025Luke 9.28-43a When I was in middle school I somehow ended up on our school’s Science Olympiad team, despite the fact that science wasn’t particularly my jam and practices happened during the same time that I had volleyball practice. When I think about it now, the concept seems kind of fun, but at the time my younger self was mostly annoyed at having to juggle the responsibility. The whole idea was essentially like the Olympics for middle school…

23 Feb 2025

7th Sunday after EpiphanyFebruary 23, 2025Genesis 45.3-11, 15 There are a lot of things I love about living in Virginia. Before this weekend, I would have said the mild winters, but here we are with more snow than I’ve seen in eons, even in Michigan. No, I have come to love so much about living here, but y’all (see? I even love saying y’all now), I have one really big pet peeve, and some of you know this because you’ve…

16 Feb 2025

6th Sunday after EpiphanyFebruary 16, 2025Luke 6.17-26 I confess this morning that…I’m tired. I mean, you know all know me, so you know, generally, I’m always sleepy. No matter what time the alarm goes off, if someone asks how I am in the morning, I’m going to say, I’m tired. But that’s not what I mean. I am achingly, bone-deep, down to a cellular level tired. I am tired of constantly feeling as though we are living through moments of…

09 Feb 2025

5th Sunday after EpiphanyFebruary 9, 2025Isaiah 6.1-13 Life in the country, particularly life in the country of the Midwest, comes with certain requisites. Cornfields aren’t scary, they’re just your backyard. It is not necessarily surprising if you look out and see a neighbor’s animal wandering around your yard. I grew up with our neighbor’s pheasants annoying our dogs incessantly, and now my mom has a rooster next door. You measure things in time not miles, and anything under an hour…

02 Feb 2025

Presentation of Our LordFebruary 2, 2025Luke 2.22-40 Life with a teenage nephew that you don’t see everyday is a lesson in the mind-bending weirdness of time. I feel like every time I see Felix lately, something is different, and this has been going on for about the last year or so. I will never forget rolling into their house for his birthday last year and having him turn the corner of the hall and go, “Hi,” then promptly see my…

26 Jan 2025

3rd Sunday after EpiphanyJanuary 26, 20251 Corinthians 12.12-31a If you’ve been on social media in the last week or watched GMA or Today you have probably heard something about this whole Onyx Storm thing. It was a book released this past Tuesday, which has been highly, passionately anticipated by flocks and flocks of fantasy readers. It’s the third book in a series that is essentially about dragons and their riders. Now trust me, this is going somewhere… I just finished…