Freed From The Burden

February 20, 2015
Preacher: Mark Edington I don’t know about you— but these last few weeks have just about pushed me over the edge. It is almost as though we went to sleep, and…

By Any Means Necessary?

February 14, 2015
(There is no recording available for this sermon.) Text: 1 Corinthians 9:22b: “I have become all things to all people, so that I might by any means save some.” We…

No Exit

January 25, 2015
Preacher: Mark Edington Text: Mark 1:18: “And immediately they left their nets and followed him.” The theme today is decisiveness. Easy to read about, not so easy, maybe, to emulate.…

One Step In, One Step Out

January 21, 2015
Report of the Rector for 2014 It is possible to sum up the report below in seven words: I am the rector of Saint John’s. This is the sixth time…

Reversal of Fortune

January 18, 2015
[No audio is available for this sermon.] Text: Jeremiah 31:13: “I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.” Things come a little out…
Preacher: Edward Dunar Today’s readings were the very first stories I ever heard in church. When I was very young, my father decided to reengage with his faith by accompanying…

Called Into Being

January 18, 2015
Preacher: Mark Edington We recall this morning the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. It’s a story we know; you’ve probably seen it in a hundred images. There is always…

Person to Person

December 24, 2014
Preacher: Mark Edington Text: Titus 2:14: “He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his…

Settling Accounts

December 12, 2014
Preacher: Mark Edington Text: Mark 1:5: “And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in…