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It Goes On and On and On and On — Easter Sunday, 31 March 2024

So we begin again, searching for the risen Jesus, and we find him, at the beginning, in Galilee. We see him calling Peter and the other disciples, sending them out with a mission. We see him teaching and healing and challenging authority. The story is beginning again. As biblical scholar Ched Myers notes, “the story is circular!”Unlike all the other gospels, and even…

Forgiveness: Beyond “That’s Okay” — 29 March 2024

I need forgiveness. I have much to confess: I spend too much time on screens and not enough time with my children and spouse. Too much time answering superfluous emails and not enough time with the lonely and isolated to whom I am called to minister. Every whim and desire is answered with a few…

The Ritual for Betrayers, Deniers, Doubters and Deserters — 28 March 2024

Jesus’s washing is risky. This story, the one of Jesus washing his disciples’ feet is only recorded by John. Even the word he uses for washing is pretty much only used in his gospel. And, really except for scenes with John the Baptist in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, John is the only gospel who talks about water: water changed to wine,being…

Palm Sunday Was A Riot — 24 March 2024

Martin Luther King, Jr, in a 1968 speech in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, said that “riot is the language of the unheard.” Our Hosannas demand to be heard—not just by any unjust temporal power, but by the one in the highest heaven, the one who lives and reigns into eternity. Our Hosannas demand salvation and redemption…

Written On Our Hearts — 17 March 2024

But what if forgiveness is what we need? Can we forgive those who hold different values? Can we allow God to forgive them – or at least admit that we are not in charge of who God forgives? Forgiveness may be at the root of keeping the law, that if we can forgive, we may…

God’s Strange Soutions — 10 March 2024

In Ephesians, Paul writes that God is rich in mercy and — I love this redundancy — out of the great love with which God loved us, even when we were dead through our sins, God made us alive together with Christ. And God did this before we even knew we were not alive and that we were in…

The Image I Most Often Take In Vain—3 March 2014

Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the leading Jewish theologians of the 20th Century, once considered “Why is the Torah so concerned with idolatry?” Some times folks say it is because God is unimaginable, implying, by the root of that word, that God has no image. But that’s not it, Heschel said, “No, it is precisely because God has an image that idols are…

A Gospel for the Grieving and the Guilt-Ridden — 25 February 2024

In truth, Jesus’s words about saving and losing one’s life make the most sense to those well acquainted with despair. It is the parent who says, “Take me instead,” when their child is beaten in a bathroom. The activist willing to go to jail or be run over by construction equipment for the sake of the trees, the…

A Prescription for the Despairing — 18 February 2024

And by “wilderness,” Scripture generally means a place that is uninhabited by humans, but it is otherwise overflowing with life: Hagar finds a watered oasis, Elijah gets a nap and a snack courtesy of some ravens, Jonah is swallowed by a whale. When the doors of the ark open, that which had been rendered uninhabited by human greed and sin was filled…

A Practice for Loving What Is Temporary — Ash Wednesday, 14 February 2024

On this Ash Wednesday on Valentine’s Day, I wonder, how do we love what is temporary?  The Psalmist speaks the truth about humanity, how we are only briefly on this earth, calling us grass, mere flowers of the fields blown away on the wind with “nothing to show that we were here.” We often believe that temporary-ness is a design flaw.…

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Starting on the 13th of September 2020, we welcomed Pastor Adrianne Meier as preacher and pastor. During our interim, Pastor Darby Lawrence was our preacher. You can find some of his sermons here – click on the name of the sermon to open it. Other sermons are in his facebook feed and on the St. Thomas youtube page.

Pastor Darby Lawrence’s sermon for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, 8 August 2020

Pastor Darby’s sermon for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, 2 August 2020

Pastor Darby’s sermon for the Eighth Sunday of Pentecost, 26 July 2020

Pastor Darby’s sermon for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, 19 July 2020

Pastor Darby’s sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Pentecost, 12 July 2020

Pastor Darby’s sermon for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, 5 July 2020

Pastor Darby’s sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, 28 June 2020

Pastor Darby’s sermon for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, 21 June 2020

Pastor Darby’s sermon for the Second Sunday after Pentecost, 14 June 2020

Pastor Darby’s sermon for Pentecost, 31 May 2020

Pastor Darby’s sermon for Ascension Sunday, 24 May 2020

Pastor Darby Lawrence’s sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, 18 May 2020

Pastor Darby Lawrence’s sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, 10 May 2020

Pastor Darby Lawrence’s sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, 3 May 2020

Pastor Darby Lawrence’s sermon for St. Thomas Sunday 2020

Pastor Darby Lawrence’s sermon for Easter Sunday 2020

Pastor Darby Lawrence’s sermon for Good Friday 2020

Pastor Darby Lawrence’s sermon for Maundy Thursday 2020

Pastor Darby Lawrence’s sermon for Palm Sunday 2020

Doug Bauder: Water is Thicker than Blood – 30 June 2019

Amy Balcam: Vocation – 5 May 2019

Amy Balcam: In Defense of Thomas – 28 April 2019

Marie F. Fleming: Table Grace – 31 March 2019

Amy Balcam: The God of Second Chances – 24 March 2019

Amy Balcam: Dislocated Exegesis & Jesus – 17 February 2019

Marie F. Fleming: “One Wild and Precious Life” – 27 January 2019

Marie F. Fleming: More than Enough – 21 October 2018

Marie F. Fleming: Heaven Can Wait – 23 September 2018

Marie F. Fleming: Resident Aliens – 26 August 2018

Marie F. Fleming: Happy Meal – 29 July 2018

Timothy J. Hallett: You Are Witnesses – 15 April 2018

Ellen Mills: Rivers, 9-24-2017

Ellen Mills: Who Do You Say That I Am?, 8-27-2017

Doug Bauder: Why Worship, 8-20-2017

Ellen Mills: Old and New Treasures, 7-30-2017

Ellen Mills: Yoked to Jesus, 7-9-2017

Ellen Mills: Welcomed and Welcoming, 7-2-2017

Ellen Mills: Fearing the Wrong Thing, 6-25-2017

Dawn Bakken: So Sarah laughed to herself, 6-18-2017

Ellen Mills: Revealing God, 5-28-2017

At his request, Pastor Lyle McKee’s sermons have been removed from our website. Printed copies are available in the parish library.