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Sunday Pentecost 4
6/25/23 A God Who Sees Us The Rev’d Mark Hargreaves takes us further into Abraham’s unique family life to demonstrate how God’s love for his people “…overcomes all the obstacles that we can put in its place, and that divine love extends to all people.” Read here. |
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Sunday Pentecost 3
6/18/23 You Must Be Joking God had some incredible things to say to Abraham and Sarah. Did they think he might be joking? The Rev’d Mark Hargreaves asks what each of us think is believable since “we believe in a God for whom nothing is impossible.” Read here. |
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Sunday Pentecost 2
6/11/23 Promises The Rev’d Mark Hargreaves dives into Abraham’s life with an examination of the promises God makes to him as he’s asked to venture into the unknown: “We’re all in some sense, like Abraham, being constantly called into the unknown. And let’s look to respond as he did, with faith and hope.” Read here. |
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Sunday, Trinity
6/4/23 The Gospel of Your Life In her final Sunday with us The Rev. Nicole Simopoulos-Pigato asks some searing questions about how we see our lives in the context of Jesus’ Great Commission, adding that “In this season after Pentecost, I pray you will discover anew and know the gift that you are and the gifts that you bring.” Read here. |
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Sunday Pentecost
5/28/23 Wild Winds The Rev’d Christina Miller walks us into the wild winds of Pentecost, inviting us “to leave space for the movement of God’s Spirit in these unexpected ways, to not limit how God may meet us in all kinds of people, and in all kinds of experiences, and all kinds of places in the waking world.” Read here. |
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Sunday Ascension
5/21/23 The Eyes of Our Hearts Seeing the world through the eyes of her children, The Rev’d Nicole Simopoulos-Pigato, allows that “…like the children in our midst, we need to ‘see with the eyes of our hearts’ and then we can get busy and proclaim and create the world that God dreams of.” Read here. |
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Sunday Easter 6
5/14/23 To Be a Christian In her first of four weeks with us while Fr. Mark is on vacation, visiting Bishop’s School chaplain The Rev’d Nicole Simopoulos-Pigato takes on what it means to be a Christian: “To be a Christian and to follow Jesus on the way is to commit to love … God shaped love, love that is deep, active, and absolutely unconditional …” Read here. |
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Sunday Easter 5
5/7/23 An Astounding Declaration On her yearly visit to St. James, the Rt. Rev’d Susan Brown Snook examines Jesus’ Last Supper declaration that we are destined to do even greater works than He: “It’s an astounding declaration. Jesus has faith in us. We’re used to being told that we need to have faith in Him, but listen to this, He has faith in us. He believes that He has given us everything we need to do the things that He does and more …” Read here. |
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Sunday Easter 4
4/30/23 Rumor Spread By Women? The Rev’d Mark Hargreaves discusses the sad reality of our church being male centric from the start. He suggests that the Bible giving women as the first witnesses of the resurrection may in fact be the most convincing argument on its veracity: “Unless it was true, you wouldn’t make it up.” Read here. |
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Sunday Easter 3
4/23/23 Our Christian Journeys Cleopas couldn’t recognize Jesus on the road to Emmaus. The Rev’d Mark Hargreaves asks us to be observant on our journeys, remembering “… We journey with Jesus. It’s a journey of transformation, and it’s a journey we make in the company of others.” Read here. |
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Sunday Easter 2
4/16/23 Love the Questions After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to all the disciples except one. The Rev’d Christina Miller asks us to put ourselves into Thomas’s head, and allows that “Thomas’ story gives us permission to sit with our doubts, to hold them with reverence, and to maybe even learn to love our questions.” Read here. |
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Easter Sunday
4/9/23 Easter Sunrise Gathering outside the church at 6:00 am, The Rev’d Christina Miller shares the good news revealed at the tomb to the two Mary’s that “Every part of us—and the world we live in, and all of creation can be brought back to fullness of life.” Read here. |
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Easter Sunday
4/9/23 The Best Is Yet To Come This Easter Sunday the Rev’d Mark Hargreaves uses St. Paul to assure us “Christian hope is based on what has already happened, that Jesus has been raised from the dead…that we have a hope which is eternal…and the best is yet to come.” Read here. |
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Good Friday
4/7/23 Behold the Man As we gather before the cross, the Rev’d Mark Hargreaves invites us “… to look closely at the man who is God in human form … pay close attention to who he truly is and what he is about to accomplish.” Read here. |
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Maundy Thursday
4/6/23 Judas the Traitor The Rev’d Christina Miller sets the table at the Last Supper, takes us into Judas’ mind, and allows as how things could have been different: “… it is never too late for us to return to God’s love, to be forgiven and healed, and raised to new life in Christ.” Read here. |
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Palm Sunday
4/2/23 Love Unknown The Rev’d Dr. Mark Hargreaves introduces the reading of St. Matthew’s Passion narrative: “This story of Jesus’s final days is an account of Jesus’s passivity as he is “done to”, at the end of his earthly life. It’s also the story of his passionate love for his people.” Read here |
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