Advent 1 B ~ "Watchful and Alert" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
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Preach This Week ~ Sunday homily


The Advent Season comes in a bifocal way. It comes in a “soft” tone, as the Irish would put it, a time of prayer and reconnecting with...


- Nov 21
- 2 min
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, DMin
On this Sunday we celebrate the feast of Christ the King. This is the final Sunday of the liturgical year. Next week we will begin the...
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- Nov 14
- 6 min
33 OT A ~ "Money and the Kingdom" ~ Susan McGurgan, DMin
Many of us unconsciously divide our lives into separate, distinct, compartmentalized chunks… There is the spiritual part— AKA, the “good...
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- Nov 7
- 4 min
32 OT A ~ "Maybe it's Not About the Oil" Susan McGurgan, DMin.
As wedding stories go, this particular wedding story is not what you would call, festive. It's frustrating, and even a little, well......
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- Oct 31
- 5 min
31 OT A ~ "Practicing What We Preach" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
The trajectory from Jesus’ teaching we hear today to our own life together is rather clear and straightforward. St. Matthew tells us of...
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- Oct 23
- 4 min
30 OT A ~ "Another Way" ~ Susan McGurgan, D.Min.
It is hard, this week, to read this passage from Exodus against the grim backdrop of violent images and disturbing updates from Gaza and...
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- Oct 16
- 3 min
29 OT A ~ "Called by Name" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, D.Min.
If Almighty God was going to have a draft for some kind of Fantasy Faithful Team, then Cyrus of Persia seems like a very interesting...
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- Oct 9
- 3 min
28 OT A ~Invitation to the Feast" ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, D.Min.
I grew up about thirty miles from here. I went to one school for kindergarten and first grade. Then I was redistricted and went to...
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- Oct 3
- 5 min
27 OT A ~ "Murder in the Vineyard" ~ Susan McGurgan
The Gospel story for this Sunday is violent-- even savage. It is a dark tale of greed, Betrayal. Beatings. Stoning. Murder. This story,...
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- Sep 26
- 5 min
26 OT A ~Phil 2:1-5~ "Unity in the Spirit" ~ Rev. Richard Eslinger
There is a striking way in which persons who move away from their place of origin tend to set up a new home that even magnifies their old...
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- Sep 19
- 5 min
25 OT A ~ "Into the Vineyard" ~ Susan McGurgan
Early in the morning, the owner of a vineyard entered the marketplace to hire some workers for the day. This is a task that normally...
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- Sep 11
- 5 min
24 OT A ~ "Too Large to Count" ~ Susan McGurgan
If we aren’t careful, we can get a little lost in the “math” of this story. If we don’t watch it, we might find ourselves crunching...
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