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Katarina preaches on the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37.

Tim preaches on the healing of the blind man in John 9 and Jesus as the light of the world.

Kyama draws spiritual lessons about transitions, the lack of control we find ourselves in during them, and how this reveals our need for God.

Karen unpacks vignettes of faith from the Bible.

Ellendale preaches on the temptations of Jesus.

Paul preaches on Ash Wednesday.

John preaches on the Transfiguration.

Abigail preaches on the unforeseen consequences of following the law of God.

Ellendale preaches on things to praise God for in our parish life, both in those who pass through St. John's and those who remain.

Michele preaches on connecting with God and with each other in Christian community.

David looks back on our church life in 2022.

Paul preaches on the first Sunday of Epiphany on the revelation of Jesus to the world.

There were some technical problems with this recording. We lost a microphone at the 7 min 10 sec mark and switched to a microphone that was further away until it could be restored. Thus, there is a gap in the recording and reduced quality in the sound for a short period.

James preaches on the Sunday of the Baptism of our Lord.

Elizabeth preaches on the name of God on the Feast of the Holy Name.

Ellendale preaches on Christmas Eve.

Chuck preaches on the coming of Christ.

Katarina preaches on the first Sunday of Advent on the theme of waking up.

Ellendale preaches on Christ the King Sunday.

John preaches on the theme of thanksgiving.

David preaches on stewardship on All Saints' Day.

Kathryn preaches on the story of Zaccheus.

Karen preaches on the pilgrimage of the Christian life.

Michele preaches on prayer.

Tyler, Anika, and Gabe share their experiences working at the intersection of ecological justice and religion.

Ellendale preaches on the parable of Lazarus and the rich man.

David preaches on stewardship of time.

Paul preaches on the parable of the lost sheep.

John preaches on "counting the cost" and the tension between passages that urge us to do so and passages that seem to discourage doing so.

Kayla preaches on the healing of the woman on the Sabbath in Luke 13:10-17.

Elizabeth preaches on the idea that this is not our real home.

Alicia preaches on idolatry.

Tyler preaches on bread from the book of Hosea.

Karen preaches on Mother's Day.

Andrew preaches on the story of Mary and Martha.

Drew preaches on the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

Armando preaches on Paul's teaching in Galatians 6:1-16 on the relationship between Christians.

Paul preaches on the freedom in Christ that comes from following the leading of the Spirit.

John reports and reflects on his pilgrimage in Spain.

Armando preaches on Trinity Sunday.

Ellendale preaches on Pentecost.

David preaches on the last words of John and Revelation.

John preaches about the kingdom of God in the final chapters of Revelation.

Gabe preaches on the infinite, intertrinitarian love of God.

John preaches on the relationship of neighbor-love and friendship-love in the last chapter of John.

Keith preaches on belief, doubt, assent, and faith.

Chuck preaches on Easter Sunday.

Paul preaches on following God through suffering.

Shancia preaches on the parable of the prodigal son.

Armando preaches on the difficulty of explaining suffering and God's faithfulness in it.

Andrew preaches on the call to Christian life in the face of the conflict in Ukraine.

Ellendale preaches on Ash Wednesday.

Gabe preaches on the Transfiguration.

Tim preaches on the story of Joseph's forgiveness of his brothers.

Paul Smith preaches on the Beatitudes from Jesus' Sermon on the Plain in Luke.

Ellendale preaches about the season of Epiphany and Jesus' call of Simon Peter.

David preaches on love from St. Paul's discourse in I Corinthians 13.

Michele and the kids of St. John's create a collaborative message about salvation history and world Christianity.

John preaches on the Wedding at Cana and being "filled to (and from) the up."

Justina preaches on God's vision for us in the New Year.

William preaches on the Incarnation and the two natures of Christ.

Ellendale preaches on Christmas at the Christmas Eve service.

Karen preaches on the example of Mary the mother of Jesus.

Abbie preaches from the Book of Baruch on the return of the exiles to Jerusalem.

Jamie preaches on the season of Advent and the Second Coming of Jesus.

Paul preaches on Christ the King Sunday.

David preaches on what it means to work with God and the stewardship of our money.

Chuck preaches on three women of faith: Ruth, the nameless widow (who gave her mite), and a new member of the St. John's congregation.

John preaches on the meaning of All Saint's Day and Halloween.

Chuck Hoffman provides commentary on the parts of the Mass throughout the service. Ellendale Hoffman preaches.

Andrew preaches on occasions when God seems distant or absent, drawing on Job 23 and Psalm 22.

Ellendale preaches on suffering, divorce, and the blessing of the children by Christ.

Armando preaches on what it means for the Lord to be on our side: both when God dramatically intervenes on our side with deeds of power and when he doesn't.

Paul preaches on the character of the kingdom of the Messiah: holy humility rather than selfish pride.

Ellendale preaches on Jesus' question, "Who do you say that I am?"

David preaches on times when it's "raining ants" and times when it's "open skies." In either case, we need to put our trust and hope in God.

John preaches on being a doer of the word and not a hearer only.

Alexandra preaches on the the importance of loving others to abide in Christ.

John preaches on the importance of personal holiness in the face of the evils of the world.

Ellendale preaches a sermon about the "D's": discouragement, doubt, despair, and depression (and others) starting with the story of Elijah under the broom tree.

Daniel preaches on our struggle with emptiness and loss, starting with the story of David and Bathsheba.

Joe preaches on the miraculous feeding of the 5,000 and the sharing of our own bread of life.

Kyler preaches on what it means for us to be a dwelling place for God.

Toni preaches on what God's holiness means and how God's holiness is a blessing and not a burden.

Toni preaches on trusting God and practices for learning to trust God.

Michele preaches on the rejection of Jesus in Nazareth.

Martha preaches on two kinds of fear: one we are exhorted to have and one we are told not to have.

On Father's Day, Elizabeth preaches on the fatherhood of God. (Note: due to technical difficulties, this recording is partial. It begins a couple of minutes into her sermon and has lost a minute from the middle.)

Drew preaches on what it means to belong to the family of God.

On Trinity Sunday, David Mahan preaches on the Holy Spirit's work through us.

Karen preaches on the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.

Ellendale and Jennifer preach on Jesus's prayer for divine joy in John 17 and living faithfully with discouragement.

Ruth preaches on the freedom and vastness of the love of God and our call to practice love in community. 

Paul preaches on abiding in love as opposed to living in fear in the first Sunday back in the sanctuary.

John Hare preaches on the atonement and Christ as the Good Shepherd.

Ellendale preaches on Easter Sunday.

Reflections and music by Jonathan Cranston, Jennifer Klem, Jennifer Brown, Robert Messore, Tim Hersey, Ingrid Goetz, and Michael Racine.

Chuck delivers the Maundy Thursday sermon.

Paul meditates on John 12:20-33, looking at the depth of the love of God and how God enters into our brokenness.

Abbie reflects on Numbers 21:4-9 and John 3:14-21, calling on us to remember the radical love of God in the Incarnation.

Joe considers Jesus' cleansing the Temple and how God disrupts our lives.

For the first Sunday in Lent, Ellendale urges us to reflect on our identity as God's Beloved.

Chuck preaches the Ash Wednesday sermon.

David reflects on transition and transformation in the stories of Elijah's translation to heaven and the Transfiguration.

Ellendale preaches on the story of Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law.

John recounts the story of St. John's over the last few years and connects the words of Moses in Deuteronomy 18 with the future of St. John's.

Karen reflects on the story of God calling Samuel in the night, on listening to God and on our value in the sight of God.

Chuck preaches on the baptism of Jesus on the first Sunday after Epiphany.

Paul asks what it means to share our suffering with Christ so that we grow through the trials in our lives.

William reflects on John 1's theological significance in light of Christmas.

Drew meditates on finding our identity in Christ and others in his sermon for the third week of Advent.

On the second Sunday of Advent, John reflects on God's relationship to time and how his time breaks into ours.

On the first Sunday of Advent, Joe reminds us that Advent is a time of anticipation, penitence, pondering the intersections of life, death, faith, and hope.

On Christ the King Sunday, Kyler preaches on the faces of Christ as the mild king and the stern king. 

Ellendale preaches on the parable of the talents and the relationship between God's gifts and responsibility.

Abbie discusses the parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids and how God calls us to wise and cheerful stewardship.

On All Saints Day, Chuck preaches on sainthood and the communion of saints.

David looks back at the book of Haggai, where misplaced priorities divided the people from God, and forward to the 2020 stewardship campaign.

Just prior to the 2020 Presidential Election, John Hare asks which things are Caesar's? What does proper patriotism look like? He argues that our placement in a community is providential and shapes our obligations within it.

Paul challenges deriving one's value and self-acceptance from success rather than the unconditional value and acceptance of God, even in the face of (apparently) intractable problems.

Joe Rose tells the story of rescuing donkeys at Trinity Retreat Center and connects it with the need to renew our relationship with God in our stewardship of creation.

Michele preaches about the extravagant grace and compassion of God in the story of Jonah and the parable of the generous landowner (in Matt 20). She focuses on the compassion of God in community, suffering, diversity, and all creation.

Ellendale preaches on conflict, reconciliation, and forgiveness from Matthew 18.

Shancia, preaching on Christ's discussion of church discipline in Matthew 18, calls out historical failures in the Episcopal Church to love others as ourselves, especially in the sin of racism.