20 OT A ~ "Leaving Galilee" ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan
Over the millennia, scholars and preachers have bent over backwards, and twisted themselves into pretzels to “explain” this story. They...
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Aug 7, 20233 min
19 OT A ~ "In the Storm, and in the Silence" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, DMin
I’ve always been fascinated by words. And I’ve always loved questions. So it should not surprise you that a strange word that is also a...
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Aug 1, 20236 min
Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord A ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
St. Matthew begins his account of the Transfiguration with a calendar note. “Six days later,” he starts off. 1 This means that we need to...
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Jul 25, 20234 min
17th OT A ~ "X Marks the Spot" ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan
One summer, my brother and our next-door neighbor became bored with Red Rover and tired of riding bikes. They had already traded every...
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Jul 17, 20234 min
16 OT A ~ "The Kingdom is like..." ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan
Jesus often spoke in parables and metaphors, describing God, God’s action in the world, and our own journey of discipleship in images and...
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Jul 10, 20234 min
15th OT A ~ "Plant the Seed of Glory" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, D. Min
It was raining that evening, as I recall. Standing at the foot of my grandparents’ graves on the day of my grandmother’s burial. And I as...
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Jul 3, 20235 min
14 OT A "Running Twice as Fast" ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan
“Now, here, you see,” said the Red Queen to Alice, “it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get...
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Jun 27, 20236 min
13 OT A ~ "Living for God" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
If the Epistle Lesson sounds familiar this morning, it is because it should be. It is the same witness from St. Paul on Holy Baptism that...
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Jun 20, 20235 min
12 OT A ~ "Lament" ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan
These readings, as different as they may seem at first glance, all fire a warning shot across the bow of discipleship. They remind us...
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Jun 13, 20232 min
11th OT A ~ The Choice of God: Homiletical Points to Consider ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, DMin
In full disclosure, I have never preached for the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A. The last time we had this particular liturgical...
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Jun 6, 20234 min
Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ A ~ "I AM" ~ Dr. Susan McGurgan
Living Bread. Living Father. Living forever. The discussion of living Bread in the Gospel of John comes smack in the middle of Jesus’...
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May 30, 20236 min
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity A~ "Mirrored in Love" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
In the early Middle Ages, there was a movement to develop a diagram that would explain the Holy Trinity. How are the Father, Son, and the...
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May 28, 20235 min
Pentecost A ~ Rev. Michael E. Connors, CSC
Rev. Michael Connors, CSC, is Associate Professor of the Practice, and Director of the John S. Marten Program in Homiletics and...
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May 23, 20234 min
Pentecost Vigil A~ (Joel option) "Playing with Fire" ~ Susan McGurgan
One hot summer in Oklahoma City, my Dad began to find little piles of matches, twigs, scorch marks on the driveway where we parked the...
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May 16, 20233 min
The Ascension of the Lord A~ Susan McGurgan
“People of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky?” Imagine the scene… the disciples are agonized-- overcome by the...
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May 8, 20233 min
Easter 6 A ~ "Gift of the Spirit" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, DMin
I will not leave you orphans. These consoling words of the Lord Jesus, spoken to his disciples at the Last Supper, promised the gift of...
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May 2, 20236 min
Easter 5 A ~"Laying a Cornerstone in Zion" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
Just before today’s Epistle Lesson begins, a prior image is offered as a way to speak of our life in Christ. That famous text appeals to...
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Apr 25, 20235 min
Easter 4 A ~ "Abundance"~ Susan McGurgan
A few years ago, at the height of the pandemic, I dreamed that the pain of isolation, the drive to find a vaccine, the shared wounds of...
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Apr 17, 20236 min
Easter 3 A ~ "On the Road" ~ Two Approaches to Preaching the Emmaus Encounter ~Susan McGurgan
This week, instead of a full homily, I am sharing two approaches to preaching the Emmaus story: Paul Scott Wilson’s, Four Page Sermon and...
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Apr 11, 20231 min
Easter 2 A / Sunday of Divine Mercy ~ "Three Words" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts
My cousins challenged me to preach a Sunday homily in less than one hundred words. I have three words for you: peace, mission, mercy....
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