Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

"Today can you hear Jesus say to you: "Thank you for all the ways that you serve. Thank you for all the ways that you are living out my love..." Jesus's love in the world. This is a day when we encounter the radical grace and love in God."

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

"I won't try to take away your loneliness. It's your right to be lonely. And, it would be a futile thing anyway. We're all going to have it. We're all going to live in that from time to time. My prayer for us tonight, this week, throughout our lives, is not that loneliness disappears. My prayer is that, even in our solitude, and even in our times of disconnection and our loneliness, we know somewhere inside of us that we are not ever alone."

Hebrews 12:1-3

John 13:21-32

"We are created by love to love and to be loved. And this love will tear us open. It will bare our souls to the world. The world will not treat us well when that happens, and we're called to love anyway."

John 12:20-36

"When I think of anointing, when I think of this scene, I also think of the many ways we can be present to each other. Maybe and hopefully our walk is not as dramatic as Jesus's walk. Hopefully its gentler [...], but there are ways we can be present to each other as we walk on our journeys."

John 12:1-11

"We call this Holy Week. We call Friday good. But what is holy and good is still shrouded in mystery. But what we have is a God who comes to us exactly where we are. We encounter Jesus today and God whispers to each one of us, 'I AM.'"

Mark 15:1-39, [40-47]

"This is the power, not of Jesus's resurrection, but the power of Jesus death... is that when Jesus dies it tells us that there is nowhere you can go that God will not be with you. There is nothing you can do that God is not present in your life. There is no fear you can have that God is not with you in that fear."

John 12:20-33

"We have a chance to reflect on our lives, to reflect on our purpose, to reflect on our values, to reflect on the choices we're making day in and day out... and the bigger choices. We have a chance to reflect on whether these are things - the behaviors we're doing, the choices we're making - whether they're bringing us closer to God, closer to love; or whether they're keeping us distant... whether they're keeping us away."

Numbers 21:4-9

John 3:14-21

"The judgement of the world that Jesus is talking about is that love comes into the world, and so many of us are scared of what real love looks like that we run away, or rationalize, or pretend that fake love is real love."

John 3:14-21

"Our need, our desire to be in total control, to be powerful...

eternal youth and health as the supreme values in life... our need to be

successful, our fear of failure... our desire for superficial happiness, and our

belief that we go it alone - the cross turns all of it upside down. And, what

are we left with? We're left with a dying savior on a cross."

John 2:13-22

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

"If you look around our world today you'd know that power is

overcome by greater power - strength is overcome by greater strength - might

makes right we're told. And, some of us at our best will say, 'well that's not

really the ideal.' Very few of us are comfortable saying, 'no, a crucifixion

conquers power, death actually conquers life.'"

1 Corinthians 1:18-25