by Patricia Templeton | Mar 31, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
It is so wonderful to be here with you this glorious morning. So many people have worked hard to create the beauty of this service – and the three others that preceded it this week. The altar guild has been busy polishing silver, ironing linens, and preparing...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 30, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Dear friends in Christ: On this most holy night, in which our Lord Jesus passed over from death to life, the Church invites her members, dispersed throughout the world, to gather in vigil and prayer. For this is the Passover of the Lord, in which, by hearing God’s...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 28, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” These are the words that Jesus said to his disciples on the last night of his life. Love one another. Jesus...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 17, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” That was the request of some Greeks who were visiting a festival in Jerusalem, or someplace close by. They ask this of one of Jesus’ disciples, Philip, who tells his friend Andrew. The two of them go to Jesus with the...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 10, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Sunday morning has a language all its own, full of words that we seldom, if ever, use other times of the week. Words like repentance, righteousness, grace, incarnation. Words that I suspect we would be hard pressed to easily define. Sometimes the strange...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 3, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Every year during Lent we begin our service with a version of the Ten Commandments, either the full reading of them as we did today, or a condensed version of what Jesus calls the two greatest commandments – to love God and to love your neighbor. The...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 25, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Today’s service is a little bit different from what we would normally do on the Second Sunday in Lent. As you know, this week our parishioner David Abner died after a stay in hospice. David’s children preferred not to have a formal funeral for their...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 18, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
The story of the rainbow is a curious reading for the first Sunday in Lent. We are at the beginning of the most somber season of the church year, a time set aside for reflection and repentance, for fasting and self-denial. We began the service today with the Great...
