by Patricia Templeton | Jul 11, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
You know it is going to be an interesting week of sermon preparation when you open a commentary on the Gospel lesson and read this, “The story of the beheading of John the Baptist is hardly a text one would spontaneously choose for a sermon.” No...
by Patricia Templeton | Jul 4, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Happy Fourth of July! On this day that we celebrate the founding of this great nation that we all love, it seems appropriate to begin the day in church with prayers for our country. By any standards the past year has been a difficult one for...
by Patricia Templeton | Jul 2, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, This Sunday, July 4, we will mark the founding of our country with a service including prayers for our nation, and music appropriate to the day. We’ll also have a holiday-themed coffee hour. If you’re in town we hope you will join us. For...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 26, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
The service bulletin for tomorrow is attached. It should be a special service with guest musician, violinist Kerren Berz, and guest preacher and celebrant Deborah Silver. I’ll be back next week. Pentecost-5-Proper-8-June-27-SPDownload
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 22, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, This may be a first. I’m recommending a piece that recently ran on (the national) Fox News. It is about my friend and fellow Episcopal priest, Kim Jackson, who has preached at St. Dunstan’s many times. Kim is now the vicar of the Church of...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 20, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
It is one of the most familiar stories in the Bible, the battle between David and Goliath. This tale of the young boy who, using only a sling shot, defeats a mighty giant of a warrior, has become the iconic tale of the triumphant underdog....
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 13, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
When I was growing up, in the days before cell phone cameras were ubiquitous, there was a popular TV show called “Candid Camera.” Those of you who are old enough may remember that the program’s premise was that the show’s crew would set...
by Patricia Templeton | Jun 10, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, In the spring of 2020, as normal life was coming to a halt because of the pandemic, St. Dunstan’s did an amazing thing. We raised $55,000 to help people in our community who had crippling medical debt. Through the organization RIP Medical Debt, the...
