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As we close out our Lenten sermon series, Fr. Michael explores John 11:1-44 to see how Jesus meets us in our strategies for dealing with disappointment and death. As he meets us, he doesn't condemn us for these strategies, and in the end, he wants to have the final word over them--for our good and freedom.

In Ephesians 4:32-5:4, St. Paul encourages the Ephesian church to pursue a life of purity as a proper response to God's extravagant love revealed in Christ. In this fourth installment of our Lenten series, Fr. Michael explores this important teaching from the Apostle Paul.

In John 4, Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. And what begins with him asking her for a drink, ends with Jesus helping her retell her story, allowing her to see that, with all the ups and downs of her life, she's been thirsting for God. Fr. Michael preaches.

On this Second Sunday of Lent, this sermon preached by Dr. Elizabeth Shively focuses on Jesus’s nighttime conversation with Nicodemus in John 3:1–16. Jesus speaks of a birth “from above,” a work of the Spirit that no one can engineer or achieve. To see the kingdom is to receive eternal life—God’s own life breaking into the present. Pointing to the Son of Man lifted up, this sermon explores surrend...

On this first Sunday in Lent, we begin a new series entitled, "Die Before You Die: Walking with Jesus through Lent," and in our passage for today (Matthew 4:1-11), we find ourselves with Jesus in the wilderness. In Lent, we learn to normalize the wildernesses of life, knowing that Jesus has willingly gone before us into them. Fr. Michael preaches.

Where is hope to be found in the ashes of Ash Wednesday? Fr. Matthew Aughtry delivers this year's Ash Wednesday sermon, reflecting on Jonah 3:1-4:4.

Once a year at All Saints, we hold a guided "tour" of our liturgy by providing brief commentary as we make our way through our worship service. This year, for the final Sunday in Epiphany (Transfiguration Sunday), Fr. Michael delivered a brief homily to help frame our form of worship as a kind of "re-storying." That is, the liturgy Anglicans follow makes room for participants t...

On this World Mission Sunday, Mategyero Nuwamanya preaches from Isaiah 49:1-7, reflecting on how the Servant's mission in this passage becomes the mission of God's people.

Continuing in our series, "The Quartet of the Vulnerable," Fr. Michael looks to Amos 5:4-15 to help us wrap our minds around who the poor are among us and how we're meant to reflect God's character in our treatment of them.

As we continue in our Epiphanytide series, "Quartet of the Vulnerable," listen in as Dr. Tiffani Harris, Associate Pastor at Dayspring Baptist Church , preaches from the book of Ruth to help us grasp God's concern for the migrant.

In this Epiphany season, we're taking a look at the " quartet of the vulnerable " with a new sermon series of the same title. In this first sermon, we look at Micah 6:1-8 to discover the "why" of our concern for these vulnerable populations. Fr. Michael preaches.

As we welcome the Gift of Emmanuel on this second Sunday of Christmas, Deacon Erin Moniz uses our lectionary passages to help us see that we are formed by receiving, giving, and wonder.

This first Sunday in Christmastide has us in John's magnificent prologue to his gospel, John 1:1-18. In particular, Fr. Michael unpacks verse 14 for today's sermon: "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

In this final installment in our Advent series, Hopeful Expectation, we look to Isaiah 7:10-17, which guides us away from two extremes when it comes to being formed as an expectant people: on the one hand, away from our deformed sense of control, and on the other, a despairing detachment. Instead, the prophet offers a vision of of true hope in the image of a child born to a woman. Jacob Palmer pre...

Advent hope is meant to be lived , not just felt in the heart or captured abstractly in the mind. James 5:7-20 gives us a concrete picture of what hopeful expectation looks like in the day-to-day living of our lives. Fr. Michael preaches this third installment in our Advent sermon series.

The world is filled with imposter peacemakers offering us false promises of peace, but in Isaiah 11, the Lord God promises to send his Messiah to lead his people into an everlasting and true peace. Dr. Daniel Hill preaches this second part in our Hopeful Expectation series for Advent.

For this first Sunday in Advent, Fr. Michael launches our Advent sermon series by unpacking our theme, hopeful expectation, using themes from both Romans 13:8-14 and Matthew 24:29-44.

What does it mean that Christ let go of control and power in order to embrace the "friction" and challenges of life? Fr. Michael explores this question on Christ the King Sunday, the final Sunday of the liturgical year, looking at Colossians 1:9-20.

Christians are people who know of God's promise and plan to make the world turn out all right, about the favor he promises the righteous and the judgement he reserves for the wicked. But often it feels like things are the very opposite, that our attempts to pursue a godly life are vain and futile. In today's text, the Lord God reminds his people that he is a God who is near, and calls his...

Bishop Brian Wallace visits All Saints for new member and confirmation Sunday. Listen in as he preaches from Psalm 1.

An examination of how the beatific vision of Revelation 7:9-17 shapes our lives today and for our future together as a community of "all saints." Dcn. Erin Moniz preaches.

In the final week of our Art of Neighboring series, we take a look at Isaiah 58 and see that all true holiness in our public witness is social holiness, through embodying God's character in the world and sharing in his concerns--especially the vulnerable. Fr. Michael preaches.

In the fourth week of our Art of Neighboring series, we take a turn toward the conclusion of the series by looking at what 1 Peter 3 can teach us about our public witness as the church. In a time when words often fail, lives of Christlike virtue are the context for our verbal witness. Fr. Michael preaches.

In week three of our Art of Neighboring sermon series, we return to the Good Samaritan parable in Luke 10 to see how our barriers to neighboring are similar to those Jesus interacts with and describes in this episode. Fr. Michael preaches.

In the second week of our Art of Neighboring series, we look to the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10. There, Luke offers us a picture of how Jesus neighbors humanity--by moving toward, and attending to, the one in need. Fr. Michael preaches.