Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Dallas

Mother Maddie explores Peter’s humanity, the Transfiguration, and the challenge of accepting a suffering Messiah. Mountaintop spiritual experiences prepare believers to serve in a broken world. True discipleship requires embracing the cross, surrendering to God’s will, and becoming living reflections of divine love through sacrificial faith and action. Today's Readings: Exodus 24:12-18 | 2 Peter 1...

Mother Rebecca explores Jesus’ declaration that his followers already are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. It reframes righteousness as embodied love, presence, and compassion, urging believers to live out the Sermon on the Mount by bringing life, hope, and visibility to a hurting world. Today's Readings: Isaiah 58:1-9a | 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 | Matthew 5:13-20 Sermon preached by T...

Father Casey’s sermon reflects on reading Matthew’s Gospel as a whole and highlights the Sermon on the Mount as Jesus’ central, political, and revolutionary manifesto. Centered on the Beatitudes, it contrasts the values of God’s kingdom with those of the world and calls Christians to embody mercy, peacemaking, and faithful courage despite opposition. Today's Readings: Micah 6:1-8 | 1 Corinthians 1...

Mother Maddie explores Jesus’ call of the first disciples as a revelation of God’s mission to bring light into places of deepest despair. Beginning in Zebulun and Naphtali, Jesus fulfills prophecy by gathering the lost through ordinary people, inviting all believers to become bearers of light on the long road home. Today's Readings: Isaiah 9:1-4 | 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 | Matthew 4:12-23 Sermon pre...

Father Casey explores Isaiah’s Servant Songs and how early Christians saw them fulfilled in Jesus. This stories illuminate that God’s salvation does not rest in nations or ideals but in Christ alone. Even amid darkness and failing societies, believers find hope by living in the light of Christ. Only Christ, the Lamb, is the light of the city of God. Believers are called to hold fast to him, listen...

Mother Rebecca reflects on Jesus’ baptism, asking why the sinless Son of God submits to it. Drawing on Scripture, Jewish ritual, and early Christian theology, she presents Jesus as the Lamb of God who bears humanity’s sin, inaugurates his mission, reveals the Trinity, and invites all people into death and resurrection through baptism. Today's Readings: 42:1-9 | Acts 10:34-43 | Matthew 3:13-17 Serm...

In her sermon on the Feast of The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Mother Rebecca explores The Epiphany as a double revelation: Christ’s divinity revealed through the star and the Magi, and the fear exposed in Herod and Jerusalem. It contrasts love-shaped fear with power-driven fear, inviting listeners to follow Christ’s light with trust rather than cling to control. Today's Readings: Isaiah 60:...

Father Casey explores Jesus’ childhood, focusing on Nazareth as the formative community that shaped him. By examining Jesus’ hidden years, he highlights the power of ordinary, faithful communities to nurture wisdom, courage, and faith in children, calling the church to invest deeply in the next generation. Today's Readings: Jeremiah 31:7-14 | Ephesians 1:3-6,15-19a | Luke 2:41-52 Sermon preached b...

In his sermon on the Eve of the Nativity of Our Lord, Father Casey challenges sentimentalized views of the nativity, reclaiming its historical, prophetic, and mystical depth. Through family tradition, scripture, and the insight of Christian mystics, it reveals Christmas as a call to humility, transformation, and making room for Christ to be born, not just in a story, but within each person’s heart...

Deacon Michael Sturdy, using historical sieges and Isaiah’s prophecy, explores Emmanuel as God’s saving presence. He argues that God saves not through power politics, but by being fully with humanity in suffering, life, death, resurrection, and ongoing presence through the church and sacraments. Today's Readings: Isaiah 7:10-16 | Romans 1:1-7 | Matthew 1:18-25 Sermon preached by The Rev. Michael S...

Mother Maddie Hill reflects on John the Baptist’s doubt, suffering, and faith while imprisoned. It explores the tension of living between Christ’s first and second advents, calling believers to hopeful, sacrificial living. Through service and love, Christians make God’s kingdom more visible while waiting for its fulfillment. Today's Readings: Isaiah 35:1-10 | James 5:7-10 | Matthew 11:2-11 Sermon...

Scripture was written as much with the intent to be heard as read. Please get comfortable, relax, and hear Matthew's account of the Gospel of Christ. Feel free to follow along with us as members of the congregation at Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration read from the NRVS version of the Bible. A video version of this reading is available on YouTube: Click Here If you wish to jump ahead to any...

Mother Rebecca reflects on our Advent encounter with John the Baptist and the anxiety surrounding divine judgment. Drawing on Scripture and theologian Barbara Brown Taylor, they explore God’s fire as purifying rather than destructive. They invite listeners to welcome this refining fire, repent, confront inner darkness, and prepare joyfully for Christ’s coming. Today's Readings:  Isaiah 11:1-10 | R...

Father Casey describes Advent as a season that honestly confronts the world’s brokenness. Through Isaiah’s prophetic vision, believers glimpse God’s peaceful future. Christians, born into the new creation through their baptism, must live as “time travelers,” embodying Christ’s kingdom now rather than treating Jesus as “Lord-elect.” Faith means living future hope in present reality. Today's Reading...

Pastor JoNell explores Christ’s crucifixion as the gateway to divine kingship and grace. Through the imagery of three crosses, Luke’s narrative, and the two thieves, the speaker reveals God’s radical remembrance and mercy. The feast of Christ the King prepares believers for Advent, calling them to become a three-cross community of forgiveness. Today's Readings: Jeremiah 23:1-6 | Colossians 1:11-20...

Father Casey's sermon reflects on Jesus’ warning from the Mount of Olives that even the most impressive human achievements and empires eventually fall. Christians are urged to resist today’s obsession with spectacle, see through the eyes of faith, and anchor themselves in Christ’s unshakable kingdom, which alone endures when all else crumbles. Today's Readings: Malachi 4:1-2a | 2 Thessalonians 3:6...

Mother Rebecca explores Jesus’ debate with the Sadducees over resurrection, focusing on their callous use of a hypothetical woman to challenge faith. It contrasts human logic with divine mystery, urging compassion, equality, and trust in God’s faithfulness. Resurrection, Mother Rebecca explains, reveals not our understanding but God’s unyielding commitment to life and justice. Today's Readings: Jo...

Bishop Wolfe, in this sermon given at the All Souls’ Requiem, reflects on the pervasive presence of death in life and society, acknowledging grief, fear, and despair. Yet it powerfully affirms Christian hope in the resurrection—through Christ’s victory, death is conquered. The preacher urges faith, comfort, and encouragement: even at the bottom of life’s well, the ground beneath is solid. Readings...

In this sermon, Father Casey, calls Christians to reclaim their faith’s integrity by embodying the holiness and compassion of Jesus. It urges believers to reject hypocritical or transactional religion and live as true “saints” — people shaped by grace, love, and the Beatitudes — transforming Christianity back into the likeness of Christ. Today's Readings: Daniel 7:1-3,15-18 | Ephesians 1:11-23 | L...

Father Ted begins with the statement, "This is my last sermon at Transfiguration and I've have things to say." He continues to recount what makes Transfiguration a central place in his life which he will carry forward with him to his new congregation focusing on the manifestation of Grace he has found here. He challenges the people of the Fig to face forward rather than looking back and allow Grac...

In this sermon, Mother Rebecca reflects on the grace of God who meets us in our lowest moments and wrestles us into righteousness. Today's Readings: Genesis 32:22-31 | 2 Timothy 3:14—4:5 | Luke 18:1-8 Sermon preached by The Rev. Rebecca Tankersley on The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. We invite you to view the full service HERE . Learn more about our community by visiting www.transfiguration.n...

Father Ted recounts coming out to a friend during a transformative post graduation beach trip, where deep thanksgiving to God brought him peace. He connects that moment to the story of the grateful leper from today's Gospel reading, teaching that gratitude reveals God’s grace. He urges everyone to give thanks as they discern their stewardship of God’s Grace in their life and their faith. Today's R...

Father Casey reflects on selfless giving and the nature of grace. Through a story about an anonymous donor and Jesus’ teachings, it urges Christians to act rightly without seeking praise. Grace, the unifying thread of faith, is both our duty and our gift—free yet costly, voluntary yet necessary, to live out our life in community. Sermon preached by The Rev. Casey Shobe on The Seventeenth Sunday af...

Only in Hades did the rich man learn care and concern for others, but it extended only to his five brothers. In this modern parable about wealth and selfishness, we meet his five brothers and learn why they choose to ignore the needs of the poor, giving us the opportunity to examine our own idols that prevent our generosity. Sermon preached by The Rev. Ted Clarkson on The Sixteenth Sunday after Pe...

Rebecca Gingles, Parish Episcopal School Chaplin, reflects on the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, warning against misplaced trust in wealth. Drawing on Amos and 1 Timothy, she  emphasizes generosity, justice, and faithful living. Parish Episcopal School’s mission is celebrated, with a call for prayerful support in forming students into compassionate, service-minded leaders. Sermon preached by...