The vibrancy of life here at St. Peter’s makes my service on our staff a joy and privilege. Visitation, teaching and preaching are the ministries that feed my pastoral identity, as together our staff and lay members share in our missional calling … Building a community of faith by God’s grace.
Copied here is a combined sermon from traditional worship on May 19, 2019 — Confirmation Sunday. Sections addressing each confirmand from the 8AM and 10:45 services that morning are combined within the sermon structure and theme here. Robert Fulghum, has written eight best-selling books, although he is most famous for his first best-seller, All I…
The ancient Druids are said to have taken a special interest in in-between things like mistletoe, which is neither quite a plant nor quite a tree, and mist, which is neither quite rain nor quite air, and dreams which are neither quite waking nor quite sleep. They believed that in such things as those they…
If you were a fan of the movie The Clash of the Titans, you might remember one of the meme-worthy lines, “Release the Kracken!” With those words the legendary squid like beast was unleashed upon the vulnerable sailors and ships within the vicinity of this powerful monster. With much less fanfare, and with no sailors…
New Day Sermon Third Sunday Of Easter In the three-fold question Jesus asks Peter … “Do you love me?” … we find ourselves being called to answer. What does it mean to be a modern day apostle in a complicated world. Sometimes the questions themselves, embody the answers we seek.
Our thanks to Brendan Armitage for this week’s devotion! A few Thursdays ago was Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday as it is to some. It’s called Maundy in our tradition from the Latin mandatum. Mandatum means “something commanded”, and comes from the Latin noun for “hand”, manus and the Latin verb “to give”, dare. So, it’s personal. It’s given to you and…
TRADITIONAL SERMON — EASTER 2 Words have power. Even in a world like ours where words are vomited across every single communication platform that exists in far greater volume than ever before. Amazingly, our regular misuse of our words has not diminished their inherent potency. If I say something like “TOM!” … I immediately have…
TRADITIONAL SERMON Easter Sunday Darkness and light … it is a rhythm that has always stood at the center of this story. Energy … that we cannot begin to comprehend, fuels the event. Theories, questions and conclusions have arisen around it, even though none of us have ever seen it with our own eyes. And…
