On Youth Sunday, high school seniors Lydia Oliver and Shelby Bryson reflect on their experiences at St. Paul’s.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Sermons (Page 36)
John 10:22-30
The Rev. Melanie Mudge discusses the Gospel John 10:22-30. Children ask, “What language did Jesus speak?” They are told, Jesus understands all languages.” Melanie discusses how we hear God….
The Rev. George Adamik reflects on the how the disciples gather around a charcoal fire in scripture. In today’s gospel, John 21:1-19, Jesus meets with the fishermen around a charcoal fire, and in the days leading up to the crucifixion, there is a gathering around a charcoal fire as Peter denies Jesus. The candle light in today’s services is symbolic of that charcoal fire light.
The Rev. Carr Holland reflects on John 20:19-31 and his own father’s death: “Some years ago when my father died, there were many things that had to be tended… Death is hard, because it impacts far more than the one who dies. It alters the course of life for many.”
John 20:1-18
George discusses our faith today and that young people today are “spiritually ravenous and institutionally suspicious.”
Luke 24:1-12
Javier discusses his visit to Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulcher and the feeling of being perplexed that Jesus’ message is sometimes not what we expect.
John 18:1-19:42
No moment in Jesus’ life stands alone. For Jesus is of God and his life flowed from the core of God, from the constant love that God holds out towards all of humankind….
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
As we come together this Maundy Thursday. George and I will have the opportunity to wash some of your feet….
(NOTE: we apologize for the poor sound quality of this recording – we had some technical problems.)
On Palm Sunday (Sunday of the Passion), the Rev. George Adamik reflects on the word “passion” and God’s steadfast love (Luke 22:14-23:56): “Often times, when we hear the word ‘passion’ — the Passion of Christ — it may bring to mind the suffering of Jesus, this violent death, this beating, the crown of thorns, rejection, hurt… And many would say Jesus did that for me; because Jesus did that, I’m saved. It’s a very common understanding, an ancient understanding. But at times, it presents the idea that somehow God the Father didn’t like us very much, that God the Father needed a sacrifice to love us again. I want to offer another lens to look at this word ‘passion’ — a minority opinion in the history of Christianity. It speaks to me, and I think it’s very Episcopalian.”
Philippians 3:4b-14
In 2009, a young musician stood before the cream of the crop of the political establishment and announced he was working on a concept album. An album, he noted, of someone whose life embodied hip-hop, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. That artist, of course was, Lin-Manuel Miranda, then only 29 years old. And the vennue was the White House during one of President Obama’s first famous poetry jams.