A Sermon for the Second Sunday of Christmas

"Herod, a vindictive, selfish, broken and fragile egotist seeks the counsel of these magi to eliminate the child and preserve the power he thinks he has. Instead, the magi read the signs and see that the only child in the room is this king, and the only true king in the world is this child."

A Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent

"We need communal rhythms that make deliberate space for both grief and joy."

-Tish Harrison Warren

A Sermon for the First Sunday of Advent

"Sorry John Mayer, but we don’t need to wait for the world to change in order to live in THIS world as a people who share in God’s dream FOR this world."

A Sermon for the Twenty-Second Sunday after the day of Pentecost

"It is sometimes tempting to consider this time to be one of hardship for the Church, but rather than grieving the withered vines of our former flourishing, now is a time to focus on tending to the vines of ministry that are growing among us."

A Sermon for the Nineteenth Sunday after the Day of Pentecost

We know that God doesn’t work this way.

A Sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after the day of Pentecost

The one hundred and thirty-seventh psalm is one that we have indeed prayed. And while we may want to avoid the discomfort of these words, what might be gained if we witnessed to the human experience of grief that we share with our so-called enemies?

A Concert in celebration of the feast of St. Michael and All Angels on Sunday, September 29, 2019, sung by the St. Paul's Choir, John Abdenour, director, with Mr. Edward Tipton, organ, and Richard Clymer, Kenneth Tedeschi, Robert Hoyle, Scott Cranston, and William Whitaker, brass quintet, and Lee Caron, timpani.

Repertoire included anthems of Edward Bairstow, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Edward Elgar, Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky, and a work specially composed for this concert, A Sequence for St. Michael, by John Abdenour.  Hymn arrangements by John Abdenour.

A presentation of NightChurch.

A Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after the Day of Pentecost

If we love our wealth even a little, we cannot love one another the way we could. If we love our stuff and treat it as if it is permanent, we’ll never know the permanence and immanence of God’s love.

A Sermon for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

"It is in that most basic human experience of recognizing our vulnerability and our lostness that God finds us. "

The Gloria from the Nunc Dimittis (Gloucester Cathedral) by Herbert Howells, sung by the St Paul's Choir live in evensong, Sunday, May 19, 2019, Mr Peter Berton, organ.