Sermon Archive - ST. ELIZABETH'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

SERMON ARCHIVE

2021

2020

The Unexpected Messiah (Christmas, December 25, 2020)
Our Destiny Christmas Eve, December 24, 2020)
Turning (December 20, 2020)
Where the Spirit Moves (December 13, 2020)
Myth (December 6, 2020)
Beginning at the End (November 29, 2020)
Listen! (November 22, 2020)
Grace (November 15, 2020)
Becoming Jesus (November 8, 2020)
The Beatitudes as Spiritual Steps (November, 1 2020)
Love (October 25, 2020)
Image Bearers (October 18, 2020)
A Seemless Garment (October 11, 2020)
Of Vineyards and Violence (October 4, 2020)
Changing Our Minds (September 27, 2020)
The Kingdom is Like... (September 20, 2020)
A Reckless God (September 13, 2020)
Conflict (September 6, 2020)
A New Way (August 30, 2020)
King Jesus (August 23, 2020)
Order Disorder Reorder (August 16, 2020)
Walking on Water (August 9, 2020)
Abundance (August 2, 2020)
Hearts Desire (July 26, 2020)
Look Again (July 19, 2020)
Seeds (July 12, 2020)
Yokes (July 5, 2020)
Freedom 2020 (June 21, 2020)
Ordinary People (June 14, 2020)
Dreams (June 7, 2020)
Footprints (May 24, 2020)
The Light Within (May 17, 2020)
Back to Basics (May 3, 2020)
Return to Jerusalem (April 26, 2020)
Where Are We Going? (April 19, 2020)
Easter, Love and Resurrection (April 12, 2020)
Good Friday, Why The Cross (April 10, 2020)
Maundy Thursday (April 9, 2020)
Surrender (April 5, 2020, Palm Sunday)
Waiting (March 29, 2020)
Sight and Insight (March 22, 2020)
Being Thirsty (March 15, 2020)
Born Again (March 8, 2020)
Wide Open (March 1, 2020)
Ash Wednesday (February 26, 2020)
Intersections (February 23, 2020)
Making Choices (February 16, 2020)
Salt and Light (February 9, 2020)
Why Ritual? (February 2, 2020)
Conflict and the Cross (January 26, 2020)
The Lamb of God (January 19, 2020)
Baptism (January 12, 2020)
To Whom Do We Belong (January 5, 2020)

2019

Being Still (December 25, 2019)
Even You, Even Me (Dec 24, 2019)
Scandal (December 22, 2019)
The Bag (December 15, 2019)
Look Again (December 8, 2019)
Advent (December 1, 2019)
Christ The King (Nov 24, 2019)
Do We Dare (November 17, 2019)
Hope (November 10, 2019)
Needing Each Other (Nov 4, 2019)
Becoming (October 27, 2019)
God's Justice (October 20, 2019)
Thank you (October 13, 2019)
Mulberry Trees (October 6, 2019)
A Christmas Story (Sep 29, 2019)
Forgive! (September 22, 2019)
It's A Party! (September 15, 2019)
Evolving (September 8, 2019)
Becoming Real (September 1, 2019)
Thinking Lightly (August 25, 2019)
Strange Times (August 18, 2019)
Treasure (August 11, 2019)
A Different Way (August 3, 2019)
The Unexpected Guest (Jul 28, 2019)
Fearless (July 7, 2019)
Freedom (June 30, 2019)
Demonizing Others (June 23, 2019)
Trinity (June 16, 2019)
Pentecost 2019 (June 9, 2019)
Demons (June 2, 2019)
A Second Look (May 26, 2019)
God’s Engine (May 19, 2019)
Naked and Unafraid (May 5, 2019)
Let It Be (April 21, 2019)
Good Friday (April 19, 2019)
Maundy Thursday (April 18, 2019)
Moving On Down (April 14, 2019)
The Great Reversal (April 7, 2019)
Prodigals (March 31, 2019)
I Am (March 24, 2019)
The Maternal God (March 17, 2019)
Why The Desert (March 10, 2019)
Ash Wednesday (March 6, 2019)
Where's The Milk (March 3, 2019)
God Happens (Feb 24, 2019)
A New World (Feb 17, 2019)
Into the Deep (Feb 10, 2019)
Stepping on Toes (Feb 3, 2019)
Getting Along (Jan 27, 2019)
Through Servants Eyes (Jan 20, 19)
Burning Chaff (January 13, 2019)

2018

Love Itself Is The Gift (Dec 24, 2018)
The Scandalous God (Dec 23, 2018)
Judgment and Joy (Dec 16, 2018)
The Larger Mind (Dec 9, 2018)
Poetry or Prose (December 2, 2018)
Kings 2 (November 25, 2018)
Ties That Bind (Nov 18, 2018)
We Are Not Alone (Nov 4, 2018)
Faith (October 28, 2018)
Ransom (October 21, 2018)
Stuff (October 14, 2018)
So What About Divorce (Oct 7, 18)
Insiders and Outsiders (Sep 30, 18)
Fear (September 23, 2018)
Pivoting to God (Sep 16, 2018)
Boundaries Redux (Sep 9, 2018)
Boundaries (September 2, 2018)
Gnawing on Jesus Part II (8 26, 18)
Gnawing On Jesus (Aug 19, 2018)
Ordinary Things (August 12, 2018)
Love is Enough (August 5, 2018)
Multiply or Divide (July 29, 2018)
Compassion (July 22, 2018)
My Way or Our Way (July 15, 2018)
Boxes (July 8, 2018)
Who Are You Jesus (June 10, 2018)
Looking Down (June 3, 2018)
Trinity Sunday (May 27, 2018)
Pentecost 2018 (May 20, 2018)
My Way (May 13, 2018)
A Life Laid Down (May 6, 2018)
God (April 29, 2018)
The Good Shepherd (April 22, 2018)
Opening Minds (April 15, 2018)
Do You Dare (April 1, 2018)
From Parades to Passion (3 25, 2018)
God Cried (March 18, 2018)
Snake Bit (March 11, 2018)
Falling Down (February 25, 2018)
From Nobody to Somebody to Everybody (February 4, 2018)
Wounds (January 28, 2018)
Crisis (January 21, 2018)
The Gate to Paradise (Jan 14, 2018)
Crazy (January 7, 2018)

2017

Happy Birthday! (December 25, 2017)
The Light (December 24, 2017)
Is God A Woman? (December 17, 2017)
Whiplash (Again!) (December 10, 2017)
Bookends (December 3, 2017)
Men Behaving badly (November 26, 2017)
Freedom (November 19, 2017)
Endings (November 12, 2017)
Why The Beatitudes Matter (Nov. 5, 2017)
Law and Love (October 29, 2017)
The Kingdom of God (October 15, 2017)
Who Owns the Vineyard? (Oct. 8, 2017)
From Grumbling to Letting Go (10 1, 2017)
Jesus & the Cosmic Christ (Sep. 24, 2017)
Reading Between The Lines (Sep. 17, 2017)
Butting Heads (September 10, 2017)
Whiplash (September 3, 2017)
Who Are You, Jesus? (August 27, 2017)
Outside In or Inside out? (August 20, 2017)
Impossibles (August 13, 2017)
The Way (May 14, 2017)
Connections (May 7, 2017)
Emmaus (April 30, 2017)
Past Present and Future (April 23, 2017)
Don't Be Afraid (Easter, April 16, 2017)
The Garden (Good Friday, April 14, 2017)
Maundy Thursday (April 13, 2017)
Changing the World (April 9, 2017)
Sin and Sight (March 26, 2017)
Crossing Lines, Again (March 19, 2017)
God's Labor Pains (March 12, 2017)
Original Sin (March 5, 2017)
Ash Wednesday (March 1, 2017)
Pain and Glory (February 26, 2017)
Choosing Life (February 12, 2017)
Salty People & Lightening Up (Feb. 5, 17)
Blessed Are..... (January 29, 2017)
Baptism and the Cross (January 22, 2017)
Baptism and Righteousness (Jan. 8, 2017)

2016

The Word Who Whispers (December 25, 2016)
To Bethlehem (December 24, 2016)
The Deep (December 18, 2016)
Unexpected Messiah (December 11, 2016)
Wild Locusts and Big Macs (December 4, 2016)
The Color Purple (November 27, 2016)
Apocalypse Now (November 13, 2016)
All Saints Day (November 6, 2016)
Lines (October 23, 2016)
Encountering Jesus (October 9, 2016)
Faith and Obedience (October 2, 2016)
The Big Spender (September 18, 2016)
Lost and Found (September 11, 2016)
The Mirror (August 28, 2016)
Form Over Substance (August 21, 2016)
Peace (August 14, 2016)
Money (August 7, 2016)
The Rich Fool (July 31, 2016)
Hospitality (July 24, 2016)
Becoming Normal (June 19, 2016)
Do You See This Woman? (June 12, 2016)
Baptism and Death (June 5, 2016)
Pentecost (May 15, 2016)
Slaves All (May 8, 2016)
The Peace of Christ (May 1, 2016)
A Far Country (April 24, 2016)
The Bumper Sticker (April 17, 2016)
Hold On Tight! (April 10, 2016)
Something Unexpected (April 3, 2016)
Does Jesus Matter? (Easter, March 27, 2016)
Good Friday (March 25, 2016)
Holy Thursday (March 24, 2016)
Giving Up (March 20, 2016)
Into the Deep (March 13, 2016)
Who's to Blame? (February 28, 2016)
A Vulnerable God (February 21, 2016)
What A Difference (February 14, 2016)
Ash Wednesday (February 10, 2016)
A View From The Mirror (January 31, 2016)
Primates and Prophets (January 24, 2016)
The Weight and the Glory (Jan. 17, 2016)
Why Baptism? (Jan. 10, 2016)

2015

Can You Believe It? (Dec. 25, 2015)
God With Us (Dec. 24, 2015)
Scandal (Dec. 20, 2015)
Metanoia (Dec. 5, 2015)
Endings and Beginnings (Nov. 29, 2015)
Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 26, 2015)
Christ the King (Nov. 22, 2015) by Mother Nicole Simopoulos
Unveiling (Nov. 15, 2015)
A New Day (Nov. 1, 2015)
Compassion Cures Blindness (Oct. 25, 2015)
A Different Power (Oct. 18, 2015)
Experience (Oct. 11, 2015)
A Child of God (Oct. 4, 2015)
Masks (Sept. 20, 2015)
Religious Humanity vs. Divine Humanism (Sept. 13, 2015)
Eating Jesus, (Aug. 16, 2015)
Ordinary Things (Aug. 9, 2015)
Rivals (July 26, 2015)
Walls (July 19, 2015)
Shall We Be Disciples (July 12, 2015)
Happiness or Holiness? (July 5, 2015)
Jairus (June 28, 2015)
Don’t Be Afraid! (June 21, 2015)
Seeds (June 14, 2015)
Born Again (May 31, 2015)
God’s Oddball Family (May 24, 2015)
Connections (May 17, 2015)
Cut Off But Made New (May 3, 2015)
Living Abundantly (4-26-2015)
Understanding the Scriptures (4-19-2015)
Locked Upper Room (4-12-2015)
Back to The Beginning (Easter, April 5, 2015)
Je Suis Barabbas (March 29, 2015)
Seeing Jesus (March 22, 2015)
Changing (March 15, 2015)
Of Weights and Wings (March 8, 2015)
New Management (March 1, 2015)
Who is God and Who are We? (Feb 22, 2015)
Walking Uphill (Feb. 15, 2015)
Healings and Cures (Feb. 8, 2015)
Demons (Feb. 1, 2015)
The Call (Jan. 25, 2015)
Turning Left (Jan. 11, 2015)

2014

The Word (Dec. 28, 2014)
The Glorious Fool (Christmas Day 2014)
God’s Invasion (Christmas Eve 2014)
The Spirit of the Lord (Dec. 14, 2014)
Beginnings (Dec. 7, 2014)
Becoming Whole (Nov. 23, 2014)
Taking chances (Nov. 16, 2014)
Belief (Nov. 2, 2014)
Law and Love (Oct. 26, 2014)
The Enemy of My Enemy (Oct. 19, 2014)
Connections (Oct. 12, 2014)
We Don’t Own the Vineyard (Oct. 5, 2014 )
At the Intersection of Heaven and Earth (Aug. 24, 2014)
Enemies No More (Aug. 17, 2014)
Walking on Water (Aug. 10, 2014)
What’s In The Box (Aug. 3, 2014)
Right Between the Eyes (July 27, 2014)
Things Hidden (July 20, 2014)
Sowing Seeds of a New World (July 13, 2014)
Prosperity (July 6, 2014)
The Little Ones (June 29, 2014)
On the Road Again (June 22, 2014)
Something New (June 8, 2014)
Muddy Footprints (June 1, 2014)
All For One and One For All (May 25, 2014)
From Here to There (May 18, 2014)
The Gate (May 11, 2014)
Human Fixes and Divine Delight (May 4, 2014)
Immortal Soul or Resurrection (Apr. 27, 2014)
Dirty Fingernails (Apr. 20, 2014)
Good Friday 2014
Maundy Thursday 2014
Why the Cross (April 13, 2014)
Sin (again)-March 30, 2014
Crossing Lines (March 23, 2014)
New Eyes (March 16, 2014)
Sin (March 9, 2014)
Ash Wednesday 2014
The Shifting Light (March 2, 2014)
Breaking Chains (Feb. 23, 2014)
Something New (Feb. 16, 2014)
This Train (Feb. 9, 2014)
Blessed are (Jan. 26, 2014)
The Lamb of God (Jan. 19, 2014)
Baptism (Jan. 12, 2014)
To Whom Do We Belong (Jan. 5, 2014)

2013

To Whom Do We Belong (Dec. 29, 2013)
Can You Believe It (Christmas 2013)
Cleaning House (Dec. 22, 2013)
Offensive Jesus (Dec. 15, 2013)
John the Baptist (Dec. 8, 2013)
Divine Mud (Dec. 1, 2013)
The King of Glory (Nov. 24, 2013)
Endings (Nov. 17, 2013)
God’s Perspective (Nov. 10, 2013)
The Great Reversal (Nov. 3, 2013)
Cracking Eggs (Oct. 27, 2013)
Justice (Oct. 20, 2013)
An Attitude of Gratitude (Oct. 13, 2013)
Obey (Oct. 6, 2013)
Who Shall We Be (Sept. 29, 2013)
Other People’s Money (Sept. 22, 2013)
Grace (Sept. 15, 2013)
Crushed and Renewed (Sept. 8, 2013)
Like Goes with Like (Sept. 1, 2013)
Pentecost 8 (July 14, 2013)
A Strange God (May 26, 2013)
Us Against Them (May 19, 2013)
Save Me (May 12, 2013)
Welcome Home (May 5, 2013)
A Widening Circle (Apr. 28, 2013)
A New Way to Live (Apr. 21, 2013)
A Complicated God (April 14, 2013)
The God of Peace (April 7, 2013)
Easter2013 (March 31, 2013)
The Great Unveiling (March 29, 2013)
Holy Thursday 2013 (March 28, 2013)
That’s Enough (March 24, 2013)
Things Aren’t Always What They Seem (March 17, 2013)
The Prodigal Family (March 10, 2013)
Mystery (March 3, 2013)
Who You Calling Chicken? (Feb. 24, 2013)
What a Difference a Word Makes (Feb. 17, 2013)
Transfiguration 2013, Feb. 10, 2013
Right Between the Eyes, Feb. 3, 2013
A New King, Jan. 27, 2013
The Weight and the Glory, Jan. 20, 2013
Who (and Whose) Are We? Jan. 13, 2013
Everywhere, Jan. 6, 2013

2012

The Word, Christmas 2012
A Fool’s God, Dec. 23, 2012
Waiting in the Dark, Dec. 16, 2012
Why Faith, Dec. 9, 2012
Advent 2012, Dec. 2, 1012
Apocalypse, Nov. 18, 2012
What Matters, Nov. 4, 2012
Sight and Insight, Oct. 28, 2012
Left Handed Power, Oct. 21, 2012
Money (Oct. 14, 2012)
Marriage and the Cross (Oct. 7, 2012)
A Child of God, Sept. 30, 2012
On The Way, Sept. 23, 2012
Pick Up Your Cross (Sept. 16, 2012)
Offensive Jesus (Sept. 9, 2012)
How Will People Know? (Sept. 2, 2012)
Gnawing on Jesus (Aug. 26, 2012)
Into the Deep (Aug. 19, 2012)
Eating Flesh (Aug. 12, 2012)
Who are you, Jesus? (Aug. 5, 2012)
Onions (July 29, 2012)
Herod (July 15, 2012)
Why? (June 24, 2012)
Smiling Jesus (June 17, 2012)
Naked (June 10, 2012)
Trinity (June 3, 2012)
A Family Affair, May 27, 2012
Leaders (May 20, 2012)
Friends (May 13, 2012)
Vines and Branches (May 6, 2012)
Abundance (April 29, 2012)
Opening Our Minds (April 22, 2012)
Being One (April 15, 2012)
Back to Galilee (April 8, 2012)
Palm Sunday, (April 1, 2012)
Believe (March 18, 2012)
The Problem is Jesus (March 11, 2012)
20/20 Hindsight (March 4, 2012)
Unilateral Disarmament (Feb. 26, 2012)
Ash Wednesday (Feb. 22, 2012)
Walking downhill (Feb. 19, 2012)
It has to be that way (Feb. 12, 2012)
Healing (Feb. 5, 2012)
Unclean spirits (Jan. 29, 2012)
Fishing (Jan. 22, 2012)
You Know Us Through and Through (Jan. 15, 2012)
You are Loved (Jan. 8, 2012)
What’s in a Name? (Jan. 1, 2012)

2011

Christmas (Dec. 25, 2011)
God on the Move (Dec. 18, 2011)
What’s the Point? (Dec. 11, 2011)
Beginnings (Dec. 4, 2011)
Advent 2011 (Nov. 27, 2011)
Judgment Day (Nov. 20, 2011)
Risk (Nov. 13, 2011)
Time (Nov. 6, 2011)
Growing Up (Oct. 30, 2011)
Three Part Harmony (Oct. 23, 2011)
Images (Oct. 16, 2011)
Dressing Well (Oct. 9, 2011)
Tenants All (Oct. 2, 2011)
Let it be (Sept. 25, 2011)
Enough (Sept. 18, 2011)
September 11 (Sept. 11, 2011)
Living Together (Sept. 4, 2011)
Neutral No Longer (Aug. 28, 2011)
Be Transformed (Aug. 21, 2011)
Lines (Aug. 14, 2011)
The Tossed Boat (Aug. 7, 2011)
Busted Hips (July 31, 2011)
Listen (July 10, 2011)
The Yoke (July 3, 2011)
Sin (June 26, 2011)
Jelly Hands (June 19, 2011)
Holy Chaos (June 12, 2011)
God’s People (June 5, 2011)
Go and Tell (May 29, 2011)
From here to there (May 22, 2011)
On the Road Again (May 8, 2011)
A New Creation (May 1, 2011)
Easter Sunday (April 24, 2011)
Good Friday (April 22, 2011)
Maundy Thursday (April 21, 2011)
Palm Sunday (April 17, 2011)
CanThese Bones Live? (April 10, 2011)
Here’s Mud in your Eye (April 3, 2011)
Danged Jesus! (March 27, 2011)
Born Again (March 20, 2011)
Patience (March 13, 2011)
Ash Wednesday (March 9, 2011)
Transfiguration (March 6, 2011)
Fear Not (Feb. 27, 2011)
This Weird Lord (Feb. 20, 2011)
A New Way (Feb. 13, 2011)
Salt (Feb. 6, 2011)
Blessed Are . . . (Jan. 30, 2011)
Follow Me (Jan. 23, 2011)
The Lamb of God (Jan. 16, 2011)
The Lord’s Baptism (Jan. 9, 2011)

2010

The Word Made Flesh (Dec. 26, 2010)
Accepted (Dec. 24, 2010)
Emmanuel (Dec. 19, 2010)
Who are You Jesus? (Dec. 12, 2010)
Getting Straight (Dec. 5, 2010)
Standing in Two Worlds (Nov. 28, 2010)
Christ the King (Nov. 21, 2010)
Living the Faith (Nov. 14, 2010)
All Saints Day (Nov. 7, 2010)
A Short Messiah (Oct. 31, 2010)
Being Dead (Oct. 24, 2010)
Becoming Real (Oct. 17, 2010)
One Said ‘Thank You’ (Oct. 10, 2010)
Increase our Faith (Oct. 3, 2010)

The Chasm (Sept. 26, 2010)
The Rascal (Sept. 19, 2010)
Unless You Hate (Sept. 5, 2010)
The Itch (Aug. 29, 2010)
What do we believe? (Aug. 22, 2010)
The Largeness of God (Aug. 8, 2010)
Thinking for the First Time (Aug. 1, 2010)
Is Jesus enough? (July 25, 2010)
Mary and Martha (July 18, 2010)
The Good Samaritan (July 11, 2010)
How’s about a Deal (July 4, 2010)
Naboth’s Stolen Vineyard (June 13, 2010)
Who’s in Charge? (June 6, 2010)
Faith vs. Belief (May 30, 2010)

Pentecost 2010 (May 23, 2010
That They May All Be One (May 16, 2010)
Welcome Home (May 9, 2010)
Who is In and Who is Out? (May 2, 2010)
Annoying Jesus (April 25, 2010)
Come and Have Breakfast (April 18, 2010)
Doubting Thomas (April 11, 2010)
Do You Believe It? (Easter, April 4, 2010)
Palm Sunday (March 28, 2010)
I make all things new (March 21, 2010)
The Father Who Had Two Sons (March 14, 2010)
Imitate Me (March 2010)
Tap Water (February 2010