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"The sermon is a brief time near the middle of our Episcopal liturgy when the priest or deacon or lay preacher opens and examines scripture in the context of a community... How do this week’s lectionary passages speak to us? What are they calling us, specifically, to do?"
"American theologian Ellen Davis, who works back in North Carolina at Duke Divinity School, put another important aspect of a sermon in focus when she famously wrote, "The preacher is called to love the scriptures in public." ... I hope that my love of scripture will come through in my sermons as your rector."
- Fr. John Wakefield, June 16, 2024
Karen Small
3 days ago6 min read
Doing What God Would Have Us Do
Jesus speaks truth to power and goes about doing what God would have him do. We are called to do the same, whatever else may happen.
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The Rev. Jeff Wilhelm
Mar 97 min read
Obedience and Trust in God's Promises
In resisting temptation, Jesus shows us that true, authentic faith, is characterized by complete obedience and trust in God's promises.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Mar 29 min read
A Faithful God, Empowering Us to Love
We are tasked today with radiating the glory and love of God through our own lives, and with God’s help, the world will be changed.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Feb 237 min read
The Cure for Oft-Infected Hearts
Love is for all, without reserve or measure, and we are invited to that kind of love for their sake, for our own sake, and for our world's.
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The Rev. Robert Linstrom
Feb 166 min read
Blessing and Challenge on the Plain
Jesus encourages the rich, the well-fed, the happy, the admired to be in solidarity with the poor, the hungry, the mourning, the outcast.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Feb 96 min read
The Mysterium Tremendum by the Lake
Simon and the future disciples made space for something good for their souls in a world of failure and disappointment. There, they met God.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Feb 28 min read
Peace, Joy, and Love in a Broken World
God is still at work amid the pain, amid the cruelty. And we are invited to join in God's work, invited to peace and joy and active love.
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The Rev. Jim Steen
Jan 266 min read
A Church that Articulates the Gospel
This is not about the Church meddling in politics; it's a matter of the Church articulating the Gospel, proclaiming justice and mercy.
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The Rt. Rev. Marianne Budde
Jan 217 min read
Bishop Marianne Budde's Sermon on Unity
With dignity, honesty, and humility that our commitment to unity requires, we can do our part to help realize the dream of America.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Jan 197 min read
An Epiphany that Parties in the Dark
God wants our communities of faith to be parties so compelling that no one can see us and deny the truth of love, the goodness of this life.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Jan 127 min read
An Epiphany that Reveals the New Creation
We believe that God reveals that Jesus Christ is the beloved, the sign of a new way of being in the world. What will that mean for us?
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Jan 65 min read
An Epiphany that Shines for All
Epiphany gives us a chance to live our lives in response to this revelation, this manifestation, this glory of God made flesh.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Jan 57 min read
A Life of Hope Made Possible
There is a hope bigger than our despair, a hope based in the incarnation of Christmas and in the faithfulness and abundant love of God.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Dec 29, 20246 min read
The Mystical Beauty of the Word Made Flesh
No one has ever seen God, but we have seen his glory, full of grace and truth, come through the Word made flesh, Jesus Christ.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Dec 25, 20245 min read
Undignified, Outrageous Joy to the World
We have much to be outrageously joyful about: the Almighty Creator God came to be with us and continues to be with us, this and every day.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Dec 24, 20245 min read
Wherever You Find Love, It Feels Like Christmas
That is the message of Christmas: God is love, God chose and chooses to be with us, and now we need merely to love, and love abundantly.
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The Rev. Robert Linstrom
Dec 22, 20246 min read
God's Love Will Remake the World
May we see that which is sacred in our world. May we see in our vulnerability and our common humanity vessels for God's revolutionary love.
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The Rev. John Wakefield
Dec 15, 20248 min read
The Answer to Our Deepest Longings
Our encounter with Jesus must change us for the better of ourselves and our community... Only he is the answer to our deepest longings.
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The Rt. Rev. Skip Adams
Dec 14, 20246 min read
Outward and Visible Signs
All of us are to be outward and visible signs of the grandeur and beauty of God in service, in eldering, in oversight, for the sake of all.
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Janet MacKenzie
Dec 8, 20245 min read
This Loving, Frustrating, Irritating, Forgiving Community
We did not always agree. We did not always cooperate. But we worked and thought and struggled and prayed. And we all grew.
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