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James 5:16 says we are to confess our sins to one another and pray for one another so that we may be healed. Fr. Michael offers a meditation on this verse as we launch our once-a-month Accompaniment Prayer services.

In Mark 9:30-37, Jesus gives the disciples an object lesson that invites them deeper into the reign of God, where the last are first and those who wish to be honored become servant of all. Fr. Michael invites us to contemplate this lesson and its implications for us. 

Dr. Liz Marvel preaches from Mark 9:14-29 where Jesus delivers a boy with an unclean spirit.

In Mark 7:31-37, Jesus heals a deaf man with a speech impediment. His tongue is unbound for the first time and he speaks plainly. The community surrounding this man, as they witness the life-giving, wholeness-restoring power of God in Jesus, have their tongues released as well to “speak well” of Jesus. Listen as Fr. Michael explains why it is that we learn to speak well of God in the community of...

In this sermon, Dr. Daniel Hill shows how the law of the Lord is a good gift, from a good God to order our worship of him and our life with one another. Although we are damaged people, we must receive it and delight in the opportunity to fulfill the law of Christ.

Fr. Michael preaches on Paul’s call for us to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ in Ephesians 5:21 and its implications for today.

Join Jeff Hubbard as he helps us consider Jesus’s jarring command to eat his flesh and drink his blood in John 6.

Fr. Michael continues in Ephesians 4 by looking at how we relate to our anger, and how feeling anger is a part of walking in the manner of Jesus.

Fr. Michael explores how St. Paul’s exhortation to speak the truth in love in Ephesians 4  is a way to live into the unity Christ has won for us in his death.

After the disciples return from a busy mission of preaching and healing, Jesus invites them to come away to a desolate place to rest in Mark 6:30-32. Fr. Michael unpacks these verses to show how they give us a new way to think about work and rest.

In a world of instability, Jesus calls his followers to join him on a mission of word and deed. In this sermon, Fr. Michael looks at Mark 6:7-13 to explore how we can faithfully follow Christ on mission in unstable times.

In the story of Jesus’ return to Nazareth, we get a glimpse of how community does or does not reshape around God’s presence in their midst. Jacob Palmer shows us how Mark 6:1-6 reveals that faithfulness as a community  means humbly laying down our expectations and conforming to Christ.

Fr. Michael explores how the biblical concept of shalom is at play in the background of the episode from Mark 5:1-20 when Jesus delivers the man possessed with the unclean spirit.

Caught in a dangerous storm, the disciples question Jesus’s care for them. Jesus calms the storm and demonstrates his divinity and his abundant care. In this sermon, Katherine Franker challenges to have faith in Jesus in the midst of the storms of life.

In Mark 4:26-34, Jesus compares God’s kingdom to a mustard seed. Listen in as Fr. Michael unpacks what Jesus might have meant by this unusual comparison.

In Mark 3:20-35, Fr. Michael shows that Jesus challenges the priority of biological family in God’s Kingdom and reorients all family around Himself.

In this homily, Zen Hess reflects on Jesus’s teaching on the sabbath in Mark 2:23-28. He invites the church to think of God’s commandments as a gift, one that invites us into a life lived with God.

Fr. Michael reflects on three implications of the Ascension for us today.

Fr. Michael unpacks Jesus' call to his followers to abide in him.

Against the backdrop of the ancient world in which women were considered sub-human, Jesus' treatment of the women he encountered, along with the New Creation he would inaugurate with this death and resurrection, declared that the old order under sin and death was passing away and the new order of God's reign was coming into the world. Dr. Liz Marvel preaches on the significance of Jesus&#3...

Join us on Good Shepherd Sunday as Fr. Michael preaches on the importance of servanthood in leadership derived from being known by the Good Shepherd to better enable creating a context where you can be known by the Good Shepherd.

Join us as Fr. Michael teaches from Acts 4 on the confidence of Peter because of who knows him.

Dcn. Erin elaborates on the paradox of death and life in the economy of God. Sharing our call to die to our sins and selfishness in order to live.

Join us this Easter Sunday as Fr. Michael walks through the unsettling ending of Mark's gospel at Mark 16:8.

Fr. Michael explores our role in Holy Week through the brief glimpse of the young man who flees along the disciples when Jesus is arrested (Mark 14:51-52)