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- Sermon: December 29, 2024 1 Christmas
- Sermon: December 22, 2024 4 Advent
- Sermon: December 15, 2024 3 Advent
- Sermon: December 2, 2024 2 Advent
- Sermon: November 24, 2024 Christ the King
- Sermon: November 17, 2024 Proper 28
- Sermon: November 3, 2024 All Saints
- Sermon: October 20, 2024 Proper 24
- Sermon: October 13, 2024 Proper 23
- Sermon: October 6, 2024 St. Francis
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Sermon: December 29, 2024 1 Christmas
Posted on December 31, 2024 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanI’ve confessed from this pulpit before that the Gospel of John has never been my favorite of the four Gospels. Mostly this is because the Jesus portrayed in John’s Gospel is just too certain for me. He is too all-knowing to be convincingly human. For this life-long Episcopalian, the incarnation...
Sermon: December 22, 2024 4 Advent
Posted on December 26, 2024 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanDuring the season of Advent, I have been using an Ignatian Spiritual exercise in which I imagine myself sitting alongside Elizabeth and Mary as we see them in the first chapter of Luke and getting to know them better. My spiritual director suggested this chapter from Luke to me because...
Sermon: December 15, 2024 3 Advent
Posted on December 16, 2024 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanAnother week with John the Baptist. I think we can all agree that for us, citizens of the Western world in the 21st century, he is a strange and uncomprehensible figure. With his wild appearance, strange diet and apocalyptic words he is more than a little off-putting to us and...
Sermon: December 2, 2024 2 Advent
Posted on December 8, 2024 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanI had a very good friend who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer several years ago. Now, if you know cancer at all, you know that of all the various kinds of cancer you can be diagnosed with ovarian is one of the most difficult to treat. It was of course...
Sermon: November 24, 2024 Christ the King
Posted on November 24, 2024 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanJesus answered, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.” Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?” Jesus...
Sermon: November 17, 2024 Proper 28
Posted on November 18, 2024 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanWhen I woke up on the morning of November 6, the day after the election, the first action I took was to pick up my phone to see the results, I suspect most of you did the same thing. For some, the results brought joy and a sense of relief,...
Sermon: November 3, 2024 All Saints
Posted on November 4, 2024 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanWhy do we dedicate a Sunday every year to the commemoration of all the saints who have preceded us? All our other Feast Days focus on Jesus. Why this day that focuses instead on us, his followers? Is it simply to give us a chance to grieve those we love...
Sermon: October 20, 2024 Proper 24
Posted on October 20, 2024 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanAs most of you know, there is a wide range of thinking within Christianity about how to understand Scripture. Some Christians argue that every word is to be understood literally and followed to the letter. Other Christians argue that Scripture was inspired by God but written by humans and is...
Sermon: October 13, 2024 Proper 23
Posted on October 14, 2024 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanOur Gospel passage for today is hard, or at least hard for anyone who has a dime more than they need to provide the basic essentials of life. As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what...
Sermon: October 6, 2024 St. Francis
Posted on October 6, 2024 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanIt is the late 12th century in central Italy, Assisi to be exact. Italy itself is not a united country but is made up of city-states of varying sizes and degrees of power, the largest and most powerful of which is the Papal city-state. Traditionally these various city-states had been...