What power usurped Caesar’s? We worship tonight, remembering not only how it happened but where it happened… and where it might be happening still.

Sermon from the service on 12/24/19 at 10:00pm.

Joseph is representative of this truth: “God with us” means life disrupted for us. Conversely, “God without us” means life as you please, perhaps even a normal-seeming life, but not a life that really is LIFE.

Sermon from the 8:45am service on 12/23/19.

Jesus is both the sun that nourishes the vineyard and he himself is the vine that we can abide in.

Sermon from The Table on 12/22/19.

In the very place and at the very time that nothing is possible—when it seems we have arrived at a complete dead end, God’s salvation provides a way of life that is characterized by extraordinary beauty and joy.

Sermon from the 11:15am service on 12/15/19.

When Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth, she sings the Magnificat, a song of praise which promises a radical reversal of fortune. (Luke 1:46-55)

Sermon from The Table on 12/15/19.

The reality of life is that we will all prepare for something: we’ll prepare for a marathon; we’ll prepare for a date or a meeting; we’ll prepare for our loved ones arriving. The Question posed to us by Advent and by John the Baptist is, will we — in hope-filled anticipation — prepare our hearts for God’s arrival?

Sermon from The Table on 12/8/19.

Bishop Allen completed his undergraduate degree in Theology from the School of Theology at the University of the South, Sewanee. He was awarded a Master’s Degree in Theology and the Doctorate of Divinity from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1991 and to the episcopate in 2001.

Sermon from the 8:45am service on 12/8/19.

To be Advent people is to cast our weary eyes out for signs that in spite of our world being terribly amiss, the Lord reigns, is not absent, does not leave his subjects without resources to live fully abundant lives, and does not leave us orphaned to the future. He comes.

Sermon from the 8:45am service on 12/1/19.

Sermon from 12/1/19 at The Table.

Jesus tells the criminal on the Cross, “Today you will be with me in Paradise.” He doesn’t say, “Tomorrow you will be with in Paradise.” He says, “Today.”

Sermon from the 11:15am service on 11/24/19.