The Good News isn’t just for Sundays.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
June 23, 2024 - One Smooth Stone
David slew Goliath because he had expert talents and had God on his side. What are your talents? The Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves offers that…“God has a plan and a task for each of us, and to complete that task, we must be ourselves and use the tools and the gifts with which we've been given.”
Sunday, June 16, 2024
June 16, 2024 - The Core of Your Being
The Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves examines St. Paul's travelling ministry, why Corinth's "super apostles" dissed him so much, and how he gets through it. That inner strength, that confidence, purpose, and love at the core of his being can be yours too, and can get you through your life as well.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
June 9, 2024 - God's Light
Guest preacher and artist Rory Browne speaks to us about God’s light, how he sees it, and how it inspires his work and walk through life’s journey. He assures us “God knows, God cares, and He wants to be with you as you go through that journey.”
Sunday, June 2, 2024
June 2, 2024 - Treasure Within
St. Paul refers to us as clay jars with treasure within. This is one of Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves’ favorite passages on which to preach. He offers that “Our woundedness, our flaws, are part of our uniqueness and can be put to use for God's glory…Don't get caught up with the outside, the surface of life. You're a clay jar…treasure the treasure within.”
Sunday, May 26, 2024
May 27, 2024 - Empowering Yourself
The Rev. Christina Miller uses the oneness of the Holy Trinity to help us understand the complexity of St. Paul’s teachings on the body and the Spirit. She invites us to “Empower yourself to make your own Spirit-led decision that shows kindness and compassion towards every body, including your own.”
Sunday, May 19, 2024
May 19, 2024 - Breathing with the Holy Spirit
On this Pentecost Sunday the Rev. Christina Miller invites us to learn how to breathe with the Holy Spirit “as a way of receiving fullness of life as your breath reconciles you to the life force that is in you.” She also gives us specific practical instructions on how to do that.
Sunday, May 12, 2024
May 12, 2024 - Letting go
At the Ascension the disciples didn’t want to let Jesus to go. But he couldn’t be held back, he had to be shared with the world. Now, as the Rev. Canon Gwynn Lynch points out, “…instead of looking toward heaven, we can look around ourselves to see all the places and people with whom we can share the love of God.”
Sunday, May 5, 2024
May 5, 2024 - Rest and Receive
The Rev. Christina Miller ask us to examine the busyness of our lives, and offers that when we learn to let go of that busyness “we can reclaim our lives as holy, and reimagine what it means to be God's chosen friends…and…experience the joy that is available to each and every one of us, of living into Christ's resurrection.”
Sunday, April 28, 2024
April 28, 2024 - Abide in Me
The Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves examines John’s gospel reading’s use of the word “abide” which, in the Greek, means so much more than our English usage: “He doesn't use the word Trinity, but that's where he's going. He's opening up that idea of God in three and God as one.”
Sunday, April 21, 2024
April 21, 2024 - Looking and Seeing
Just looking at something doesn’t necessarily mean you’re seeing it, or even understanding it. The Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves takes us to Jesus’ empty tomb for a look in. What do you see?
Sunday, April 14, 2024
April 14, 2024 - A World in Peace
With inspiration from her recent visit to the Navajo nation, the Rt. Rev. Susan Brown Snook challenges us to envision a world in peace: “That means it's up to us in the church to help people have a true experience of the risen Jesus…to offer his peace to the world. That is the mission of the church.”
Sunday, April 7, 2024
April 7, 2024 - A New Age
Thomas was just one of many eyewitnesses to the risen Christ. The Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves describes this new age that has been ushered in by the historical fact of Jesus’ resurrection. “Our resurrection hope is that God is at work now by His spirit, restoring His creation to how it was meant to be.”
Easter Day, March 31, 2024
March 31, 2024 - Christ the Cornerstone
This Easter the Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves urges us to heed St. Peter, and build our lives around Christ as the cornerstone: “We can be living stones. That which is dead and lifeless can be given new life because of what happened that first Easter morn.”
Good Friday, March 29, 2024
March 29, 2024 - Loss and Betrayal
On his last day Jesus experienced heartbreaking loss and betrayal, yet used that experience to pour out love. Taking Jesus’ example the Rev. Christina Miller urges “…we each let what pierces our hearts enable love to pour through us.”
Maundy Thursday, March 28, 2024
March 28, 2024 - Humility and Service
At that last supper Jesus modeled actions to follow demonstrating humility and service, or as the Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves offered “our faith is worked out in the midst of life as we serve one another.”
Sunday, March 24, 2024
March 24, 2024 - Even Stones Would Shout
As we enter Jerusalem with Jesus, we learn that even stones would shout God’s praise. As the Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves points out “it's not just humanity that praises God, the whole of creation joins in praise of the creator.”
Sunday, March 17, 2024
March 17, 2024 - Transformational Journey
On a baptism Sunday, The Rev. Christina Miller ask us to consider where each of us are on our transformational journey in Christ, allowing that “Wherever you are is exactly where you need to be and exactly where God is meeting you.”
Sunday, March 10, 2024
March 10, 2024 - First Principles
The Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves examines our readings for the day, describing how they bring out “first principles” of our faith, those of both loving and giving. “We worship a God who loves us, who gave Himself for us and calls us to walk with Him so that we might be raised up with Him.”
Sunday, March 3, 2024
March 3, 2024 - Jesus as Disruptor
The Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves speaks to Jesus overturning tables in the temple and the given wisdom of the world. Giving us concrete suggestions, he offers that “We need to overturn our thinking and embrace God's knowledge, God's wisdom, God's perspective, God's power.”
Sunday, February 25, 2024
February 25, 2024 - Never Too Late
Abram and Sarai chose to accept God’s call to them. As we contemplate our Lenten journeys, the Rev. Christina Miller allows as how “Abraham and Sarah’s story reminds us that we can always set out on the next iteration of our spiritual journeys…leading deeper into the very heart of God.”
Sunday, February 18, 2024
February 18, 2024 - The Choices We Make
Looking at St. Mark’s gospel account of Jesus in the wilderness, the Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves examines the choices Jesus both had and didn’t have, asking us “Maybe there are areas of our life in which we feel we don't have a choice, and maybe that's not the case?”
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
February 14, 2024 - The Paradoxes of Ash Wednesday
The Rev. Christina Miller notes the myriad of paradoxes that confront us as we honor Ash Wednesday on St. Valentine’s Day are but “…a reminder that we are deeply, irrevocably interconnected to all of creation and to one another.”
Sunday, February 11, 2024
February 11, 2024 - Praise and Glory
In his final sermon before Lent the Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves encourages us, starting with Psalm 145, to use the psalms over the next weeks to learn praise and glory, in preparation for the “…one day we will see God truly in all his glory face to face.” He refers us to today’s bulletin for six other psalms to study over Lent’s 40 days (they are psalms 8,19,33, 66,96, and 103).
Sunday, February 4, 2024
February 4, 2024 - On Eagle Wings
The Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves speaks to the prophet Isaiah’s words of encouragement to those who may grow weary that God comes in the person of Jesus to lift us on eagle wings: “May all of us who feel weary, find the rest that Jesus offers.”
Sunday, January 28, 2024
January 28, 2024 - Finding Our Way To One Another
The Rev. Christina Miller uses Jesus’ encounter in the synagogue with a man consumed by demons to demonstrate how each of us can find our way to one another so we can both heal and be healed.
Sunday, January 21, 2024
January 21, 2024 - Follow Me
The Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves talks about how Jesus’ command to his disciples to “follow me” was a “Kairos” moment for them, a moment when time stood still and the rest of their lives hinged on their decision. Rev. Mark says “Follow me is both the invitation to and a promise of new life ... What do we need to leave behind that we might follow Jesus?”
Sunday, January 14, 2024
January 14, 2024 -
The Rev. Mark speaks on "seeing"; how we tend to "look" but not see with spiritual insight as God sees.
Sunday, January 7, 2024
January 7, 2024 -
The Rev. Mark speaks on the lessons learned for the new year from the story of the Magi seeking Jesus.
Sunday, December 31, 2023
December 31, 2023 - Christmas 1
The Rev. Christina Miller speaks about the transition into the new year using the Prayer of Examen from St. Ignatius.