Sermons from 2025
11 May 2025
4th Sunday of EasterMay 11, 2025Acts 9.36-43 Some of you may remember a sermon I did about a year ago about a book I had read where one of the main character’s mantras was, “Grace costs nothing,” well this morning we are here for part two featuring the second book in this series. Thank God for authors and memorable turns of phrase. Yours Truly centers around Jacob and Bri, two emergency room doctors struggling in the midst of brutal hours, heartbreak, familial drama, and…
27 Apr 2025
2nd Sunday of Easter April 27, 2025 John 20.19-31 Ever since he was little Felix has always brought an unexpected profundity to his faith. For as long as I can remember, he has always come up with just the most random, thought-provoking questions about God, about the world, and how it all works. We joke that he will be the next pastor amongst us, that’s the level of depth these questions are at. Let me tell you, the joy I got when Jennifer started seminary so…
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…
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