Cathedral Church of St Luke - Homilies

Bishop Brewer speaks to newly ordained deacons on their role in servant leadership.

Sermon preached on Sunday 04 September, 2022 by Canon Peter Tepper at the Cathedral Church of St Luke. Ever tried to unplug from something or get away from a problem. The Psalmist speaks to us about God’s omnipresence. God’s presence is inescapable, overwhelming, but above all else comforting and awe-inspiring. Jeremiah 18:1-11 Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 Philemon 1-21 Luke 14:25-33

In our series on divine connection, Canon Josh Bales speaks to us about the nature of connecting our worship to our work. "Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name." The writer of Hebrews challenges us to make our worship, what comes off our lips, match our work, that which we offer to God and the world. Sermon p...

Some say Pentecost was a day for receiving gifts. On this day, the birthday of the Church, God gives his Church the supreme Gift of his Holy Spirit on our communal birthday. Sermon delivered by the Revd Patricia Orlando on Pentecost Sunday 2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke, Orlando. Genesis 11:1-9 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 Acts 2:1-21 John 14:8-17

Hebrews 11 speaks of a great cloud of witnesses who lived the life of faith and are now up there, cheering us on. You and I may buckle under the weight of thinking have to be perfect. God asks us to look at a look at a couple of the lives. It is in the lives of flawed saints like Gideon and Samson that we find the forgiving Savior, Jesus, who prays "Father forgive them, for they do not know what t...

Faith is being plugged into the unseen realities of life. By faith, Abraham was able to see the promise of the coming of the Messiah. God invites us to stay connected to him the source of our faith and the goal of our faith. Sermon preached on 7 AUG 2022 by Canon Josh Bales. Isaiah 1: 1, 10 - 20 PSALM 50: 1 - 8, 22 - 23 Hebrews 11: 1 - 3, 8 - 16 Luke 12: 32 - 40

"If our deepest needs as human beings are taken care of and we can see God face to face. Then we can be known by our creator as we are known. When someone gives me a dollar bill, I know what to do with it and what not to do with it right. My deepest needs have already been met. I can use this in a way that honors God in a way that is being rich toward God." Sermon preached on 31 JUL 2022 by Canon...

Do you find prayer easy? Many of us do not. Jesus teaches us 6 important ways to approach God in Prayer. It is by our adoption by the power of the Holy Spirit and through Jesus sacrificial death that we can approach God as Father. This truth changes the nature in which we communicate in prayer. Sermon preached on the the 24th of July by the Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd, Dean of the Cathedral Church of...

Sermon preached on Sunday 17 July, 2022 by Canon Peter Tepper at the Cathedral Church of St Luke. Many can recite the first four words of the creed, "I Believe in God," but do you know what it means to say I believe in Jesus. If you're going to worship Jesus, he's got to be a big Jesus one who is above all else and who will become our all in all. Amos 8:1–12 Psalm 52 Colossians 1:15-28 Luke 10:38–...

Not all of us have been mugged and left for dead, but we can all relate to the story of the Good Samaritan at some level. But the real thrust of Jesus’s parable is to encourage us to neighborliness, that is, to be like the Good Samaritan, Jesus Christ who pays debts that he does not owe. Sermon delivered by Dean Reggie Kidd on 10JUL2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke. Amos 7:7-17; Psalm 82; Co...

Canon Josh Bales speaks to us about God's providence overseeing every detail of our lives. Sometimes we do not see God at work, but there He is disrupting, directing, delighting and comforting us. Sermon preached on the 4th Sunday of Pentecost, 3 July 2022. 2 Kings 5:1–14 Psalm 30 Galatians 6:1–16 Luke 10:1-11, 16–20

Sermon preached by Canon Peter Tepper on 26JUN2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke. In this talk, Canon Peter Tepper speaks to us about how the Holy Spirit brings about change and transformation in our lives by the power the Holy Spirit. When God produces the fruit of the Spirit in our lives he does so inexorably, inevitably, and quite visibly. It is this transformation that looks like love, jo...

Dean Reggie Kidd speaks to us about, Freedom, True Freedom, and the only true Freedom Giver. Sermon delivered Father’s Day, 19JUN2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke, 10:15am. 1 Kings 19:1-15a Psalm 42 and 43 Galatians 3:23-29 Luke 8:26-39

Dean Reggie Kidd speaks to us on Trinity Sunday, 2022. It is one thing to know about God and whole other matter to know God. Knowing the Trinity is stepping into the source of light and life, whereby everything receives its vibrancy, color and meaning. Sermon delivered 12JUN2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke, 10:15am. Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Psalm 8 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15

Some say Pentecost was a day for receiving gifts. On this day, the birthday of the Church, God gives his Church the supreme Gift of his Holy Spirit on our communal birthday. Sermon delivered by the Revd Patricia Orlando on Pentecost Sunday 2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke, Orlando. Genesis 11:1-9 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 Acts 2:1-21 John 14:8-17

"For as Christ has brought us from death to life, and brought us from loneliness and emptiness, into fellowship with one another, we become God's own place of dwelling, and that happens only when beyond the teaching, beyond the acting, beyond the embodiment, there is the praying." Sermon preached the 7th Sunday of Easter, 29 MAY 2022, by the Very Reverend Dr Reggie Kidd. Acts 16:16-34 Psalm 97 Rev...

Dean Reggie Kidd speaks to us about how Christ asks us to love him, to love the real him that we might know the Father and him and impact the world in the power of his Spirit that we might bring peace and joy wherever we go. Sermon preached 22MAY2022 at the Cathedral Church of St Luke by Dean Reggie Kidd on the 6th Sunday of Easter, 2022. Acts 16:9-15 Psalm 67 Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5 John 14:23-...

Just when we think God is done, He surprises us with the unexpected. God's invitation is to all. He summons us to know life and life to the full. He calls us not to get something from us, but to give himself to us. God fills even the most unlikely with the Holy Spirit, a Roman Soldier and his family with the Holy Spirit. Cornelius experiences God's love which leads to an overflow of gratitude and...

It is God, the beloved who comes who is called Gazelle in the Song of Songs who comes leaping and bounding. It is our God that comes leaping the mountains and bounding the hills to rescue, redeem and love his people. Jesus is the good shepherd that calls us home. He is the one that heals us and binds us. Dorcas, in the book of Acts is such a woman. A woman who is healed and restored in or that she...

What happens when things don't go the way you would have hoped? This is when you really need an an Easter. Nobody is ever going to find Jesus bones in a tomb outside Jerusalem, not because people have not looked hard enough, but because the bones are not there. They are not there because he came back from the dead. They are not there because he is alive. They are not there because he is doing busi...

Jesus meets us where we are. He lovingly descends to our situation and meets us precisely how we need to be met. It is in his infinite love that he meets Thomas at the point of his doubts, at the point of his fears. Much as an older brother will descend to play "lincoln logs," so Christ condescends to meet Thomas right where he is in his moment.

Have you ever been to dance? I remember my first dance. I was present. I watched, but more than anything I longed to participate. This is the theme of tonight's liturgy to join the victorious dance of God, Father, Son, and spirit over evil hell, sin and death. Get out on the dance floor.

During Palm Sunday we hear the cries of Hosanna. Perhaps the hardest to hear let alone to say are, "Crucify." It was in fact our sin that nailed him to the cross. The Passion reading reminds us of our role in Jesus' crucifixion.

Your lifestyle is act of worship. The question is what type of worship? Is it a fragrant aroma to Jesus? Is your worship costly? Is it total? Is it beautiful? This was Mary of Bethany's worship.

You can look like your father and yet never look like him or act like him or love like him. Lent is a time for reflection and repentance. The father calls his sons and daughters back to true relationship with him. Joshua 5:9-12 Psalm 32 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32