Sermons

Tola’s sermon preached on Aug. 20, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Aug 20, 2023 in Season after Pentecost, Sermons

Sermon preached by Mr. Tola Marts, Lay Preacher, on Aug. 20, 2023: “One of the joys of our journey as Christians is the ability to see passages in the Bible through different eyes as we proceed through life. What grips us one way as teenagers looks different as young adults. And changes further as we become parents, and even more as we enter middle age.”

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Mother Katherine’s sermon preached on Aug. 6, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Aug 6, 2023 in Feast Days, Season after Pentecost, Sermons

Sermon preached by The Rev. Katherine Sedwick, Rector, on Aug. 6, 2023: “We all have moments of Sacred Presence. Many go to the mountains for nearness of God or renewal of our spirits. Here we also go to the waters. Wherever that is for you I hope you recognize in it a kinship with Jesus, who also went away by himself to pray in nature.”

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Mother Katherine’s sermon preached on July 30, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Jul 30, 2023 in Season after Pentecost, Sermons

Sermon preached by The Rev. Katherine Sedwick, Rector, on July 30, 2023: “The parable of the mustard seed completes our set of five about planting seeds and growing, and as we know seeds are transformed, according to their nature, by going into the ground and ‘dying’ so they may sprout up and send roots down, until transforming into the plants their little seed-DNA has prepared them to become. It is an excellent lead in to next Sunday when we will honor the Transfiguration of Jesus.”

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Mother Katherine’s sermon preached on July 23, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Jul 23, 2023 in Season after Pentecost, Sermons

Sermon preached by The Rev. Katherine Sedwick, Rector, on July 23, 2023: “Today’s reading from Matthew is another of Jesus’ agricultural parables, and also with a follow up explanation which scholars associate more with Matthew’s ‘gloss’ than with Jesus, and fits with specific concerns of Matthew’s community. History has seen that explanation used for some longstanding damage, even acts of retribution.”

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Mother Katherine’s sermon preached on July 16, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Jul 16, 2023 in Season after Pentecost, Sermons

Sermon preached by The Rev. Katherine Sedwick, Rector, on July 16, 2023: “God calls us to plant with a broad hand, though it’s our secular error to jump to look for the yield. We are to sow with abandon, broadly, some might say wastefully! Seeds land in all sorts of places and our eyes cannot always see what the ‘soil’ is capable of. That we may never hear the outcome doesn’t negate the call to serve, nor does Jesus suggest we economize with our seed.”

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Tola’s sermon preached on July 9, 2023

Posted by on Sun, Jul 9, 2023 in Season after Pentecost, Sermons

Sermon preached by Mr. Tola Marts, Lay Preacher, on July 9, 2023: “’m not sure I knew what weary really was before COVID. My wife Tracy and I had raised two wonderful children to adulthood, so I knew tired. I knew overworked. But I don’t think I really knew weary. I don’t know if this is how it is for other people, but this summer is really the first time I feel like I’ve actually emerged from the COVID era…”

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