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2023
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Christmas Day, December 25, 2023
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Catch Me! (Christmas Eve, December 24, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Don't Confuse the Signpost for the Destination (Advent 3, December 17, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Sorting Lessons (Christ the King Sunday, November 26, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, What You Do with What You Got (Proper 28, Year A, November 19, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, I Wanna Be Ready (Proper 27, Year A, November 12, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Heaven All the Way to Heaven (All Saints Day, November 5, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Rest is Commentary (Proper 25, Year A, October 29, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Giving to God, What is God's (Proper 24, Year A, October 22, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, To What Can the Kingdom of God Be Compared? (Proper 23, Year A, October 15, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, What's the Good Word? (Creation Sunday, October 1, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, God's Not Fair (Proper 20, Year A, September 24, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Secret Word is Love (Proper 18, Year A, September 10, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Who Do People Say That You Are? (Proper 16, Year A, August 27, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, When God Unlocks the Game (Proper 15, Year A, August 20, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Shining Like the Sun (The Transfiguration, Year A, August 6, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, What if the Kingdom Came? (Proper 12, Year A, July 30, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, How Does Your Garden Grow? (Proper 11, Year A, July 23, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Preparing a Place for the Seed to Land (Proper 10, Year A, July 16, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, I Will with God's Help Sunday (Proper 7, Year A, June 25, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Doing What We're Doing (Proper 6, Year A, June 18,2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Call of Sinners (Proper 5, Year A, June 11, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Dynamic Invitation of God (Trinity Sunday, Year A, June 4, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Pentecost Revisited (Pentecost Sunday, Year A, May 28, 2023)
Rob DeKalb, Awareness (Easter 7, May 21, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Reason for the Hope That I Have (Easter 6, May 14, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Messiah is One of Us (Easter 5, May 7, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Recognizing the One Who Returned (Easter 3, April 23, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Breathing is Believing (Easter 2, April 16, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Finders Keepers (Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, From Palms to Passion (Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Why Did Jesus Weep? (Lent 5, March 26, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, They Say They See and Their Sin Remains (Lent 4, March 19, 2023)
Kyle Evans, Episcopal Community Services (March 12, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, When Faith Goes Undercover (Lent 2, March 5, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Temptation Resistance Training (Lent 1, February 26, 2023)
Rick Pearce, Ash Wednesday (February 22, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Feast of Absalom Jones (February 12, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Be Salt. Be Light. (Epiphany 5, February 5, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Blessed Be: Rector's Annual Report (Epiphany 4, Annual Meeting, January 29, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Expecto Patronum, (Epiphany 3, January 22, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Epiphany Lessons (Epiphany 2, January 15, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, When God Has an Epiphany (Epiphany 1, January 8, 2023)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Holy Name That Works (Feast of the Holy Name, January 1, 2023)
2022
Rev. Barb Ballenger, What's the Good Word? (Christmas Day, December 25, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Does Anyone Know What Christmas is All About? (Christmas Eve, December 24, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, What is God's House Made Of? (First Sunday in Advent, November 27, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, That Kind of King (Christ the King Sunday, November 20, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, I See an Eternal Life in Your Future (Pentecost 23, November 13, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, St. Pauli Murray Pray for Us (All Saints Day, November 6, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, A Saint Who Surprises (Pentecost 21, October 30, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Persistent Widow (Pentecost 19, October 16, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, How Could You Not Be Grateful (Pentecost 18, October 9, 2022)
Rick Pearce, Francistide sermon (St. Francis Day, October 2, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, What Do You Do with What You Got? (Pentecost 16, September 25, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Measure We're Measured With (Pentecost 15, September 18, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Parable of the Initially Oblivious Owner (Pentecost 14, September 11, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Cost of Discipleship (Pentecost 13, September 4, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Supper in the Kingdom of God (Pentecost 12, August 28, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Sabbath Breath (Pentecost 11, August 21, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, We Are the Sign of the Times (Pentecost 10, August 14, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Where Our Treasure Lies (Pentecost 9, August 7, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Both Sides Now (Pentecost 8, July 31, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Answer is Always Yes (Pentecost 7, July 24, 2022)
Rev. Robert H. Brown, Pentecost 6, July 17, 2022
Rev. Laura Palmer, One Hell of a Sheep ( Pentecost 5, July 10, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, No Turning Back (Pentecost 3, June 26, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Demons Among Us ( Pentecost 2, June 19, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, God's Pronouns (Trinity Sunday, June 12, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Breathe on Me, Breath of God (Pentecost, June 5, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Upper Room Sunday (Easter 7, May 29, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Start Somewhere (Easter 6, May 22, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Shepherd's Voice (Easter 4, May 8, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Lois Sibley Homily, May 7, 2022
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Contemplating the Holes (Easter 3, May 1, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Ants in the Pants of Faith (Easter 2, April 24, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, Too Good to be True (Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Maundy Thursday (April 14, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Muscle Memory of Holy Week (Palm Sunday, April 10, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Extravagance of Love (Lent 5, April 3, 2022)
Rev. Barb Ballenger, The Prodigous Welcome of God (Lent 4, March 27, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Faithfulness, and Fruitfulness (Lent 3, March 20, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Foxes and Hens (Lent 2, March 13, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Wilderness (Lent 1, March 6, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Ash Wednesday (March 2, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Forgiveness, (Epiphany 7, February 20, 2022)
Rev. David R. Anderson, Episcopal Community Services, Seeing As Jesus Sees (Epiphany 6, February 13, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, My Fisherman, (Epiphany 5, February 6, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Fierce Urgency of Now, (Epiphany 3, Jan. 23, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Be Loved, Beloved, (Epiphany 1, January 9, 2022)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Looking for God in all the Wrong Places (January 2, 2022)
2021
Rev. Emily Richards, Leave-Taking Sermon (The Third Sunday of Advent, December 12, 2021)
Rev. Emily Richards, Get Into It (Pentecost 25, November 14, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, A Herd of Elephants, (Pentecost 24,
Nov. 7, 2021)
Charles Hannum, Stewardship Homily, (Pentecost 21,
October 17, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Rich Man, (Pentecost 20, October 10, 2021)
Rick Pearce, Francistide Sermon on Climate Change (St. Francis Celebration, October 3, 2021)
Rev. Emily Richards, Unbury Our Talents for Wonder (Rally Day, September 12, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Jesus Gets Schooled, (Pentecost 15, Sept. 5, 2021)
Rev. Emily Richards, Cultivating Joy (Pentecost 14, August 29, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Abide in Me, (Pentecost 13, August 22, 2021)
Rev. Barbara Ballenger, Running for our Lives, (Pent. 11, Aug. 8, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Bread and Chocolate, (Pentecost 10, August 1, 2021)
Rev. Barbara Ballenger, Signs that God is Near, (Pent. 9, July 25, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, A Choice, (Pentecost 7, July 11, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Breaking Through, (Pentecost 5, June 27, 2021)
Mr. Rick Pearce, Father's Day Sermon, (Pentecost 4, June 20, 2021)
Rev. Bud Holland, The Mustard Seed, (Pentecost 3, June 13, 2021)
Rev. Brian Dixon, Pentecost 2, (June 6, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Trinity Sunday, (Pentecost 1, May 30, 2021)
Rev. Donna Barr, Put Your Hand in my Wounds, (Easter 2, April 11, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Showdown in Jerusalem, (Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021)
Rev. Emily Richards, To Remember We Are Inextricably Connected (Lent 4, March 14, 2021)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Legacy of Blessed Absalom Jones (Last Sunday after Epiphany, February 14, 2021)
Rev. Emily Richards, Wholeness in Community (Fifth Epiphany, February 7, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Amazed, Astounded, (Fourth Epiphany, January 31, 2021)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Tragic Gap, (Feast of Our Lord's Baptism, January 10, 2021)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Arise, Shine, for the Light has Come (Feast of the Epiphany, January 3, 2021)
2020
Rev. Emily Richards, Incarnating the Incarnation, (Christmas 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Thy Kingdom Come (Christ the King Sunday, November 22, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Parable We Choose to Tell (Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, November 15, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, To Linger Among the Trees (Creation Sunday, November 8, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, God's Commonwealth of Love (All Saints' Day, November 1, 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Two Kingdoms, (Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 18, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, Blessed by God and Community (Rite-13 & 14 Ceremony, October 11, 2020)
Rev. Donna Barr, The Gift of the Diaconate ( Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 27, 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Last Shall be First, (Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 20, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, You Can't be a Christian by Yourself (Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 6, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, To Learn from the Suffering, (Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, August 30, 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Who do you say I am?, (Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, August 23, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Game is Fixed (Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, August 16, 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Feeding the Five Thousand (Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, August 2, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, A Sign of Hope for our Journey (Six Sunday after Pentecost, July 12, 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, What Love Requires (Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 21, 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Remembering Jim Myhre (Easter 7A, May 24, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Way of God's Mothering Love (Easter 5A, May 10, 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Good Shepherd (Easter 4A, May 3, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, Emmaus is Everywhere (Easter 3A, April 26, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, Easter in a Pandemic (Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Palm Sunday (April 5, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, Jesus Weeps with You (Fifth Sunday in Lent (March 29, 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Fourth Sunday in Lent (March 22, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, Love Overcomes Fear (Third Sunday in Lent, March 15, 2020)
Rev. Laura Palmer, First Sunday in Lent (March 1, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, Come and See (Annual Address, January 26, 2020)
Mr. Bob Hartung, Got an Idea? (January 19, 2020)
Rev. Emily Richards, May The Force be with You (Feast of the Epiphany, January 5, 2020)
2019
Rev. Laura Palmer, Linger at the Stable (December 29, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, God comes to ruin our Christmas (December 24 and 25, 2019)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Advent 4 (December 22, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, Here Am I (Ordination Sermon for the Rev. Laura Palmer, December 13, 2019)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Christ the King Sunday (November 24, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Now and Not Yet Prophetic Promise (November 17, 2019)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Veterans Day Sermon (November 10, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Great Ferris Wheel of Life (All Saints' Celebration, November 3, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, Finding Balance (October 27, 2019)
Mrs. Debbie DeKalb, Lay Stewardship Sermon (October 20, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, Surprising Extravagance, (September 15, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Gift of Uselessness, (September 8, 2019)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Proper 17 (September 1, 2019)
Rev. Laura Palmer, The Rich Fool (August 4, 2019)
Rev. Laura Palmer, Mary, Martha and Me (July 21, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards God's Dream (June 9, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards Sabbath Keeping (June 2, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards Shedding Our Fearfulness (May 5, 2019)
Rev. Patricia Rubenstein A Gospel and a Sermon in Two Parts (April 28, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards Encountering the Risen Christ (Easter, April 21, 2019)
Laura Palmer Palm Sunday (April 14, 2019)
Rev. Patricia Rubenstein The Prodigal Family (March 31, 2019)
Rev. Patricia Rubenstein, Ash Wednesday (March 6, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Witness of the Mountaintop and the Valley (March 3, 2019)
Rev. Patricia Rubenstein, Enrolling in Forgiveness School (February 24, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Power of our Words (February 10, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, The Moment of Now (Annual Address, Epiphany 3, January 27, 2019)
Rev. Emily Richards, Cultivating the Heart of an Explorer (Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 2019)