The Church With the OPEN Red Door
We love our red doors – they are a tradition in the Episcopal Church. We love them most because they open to receive our friends and family members. C’mon in and join us at worship, at fellowship, and in service to others!
Dancing for Joy – Sermon for Easter 6B – May 13, 2012
Fr. Funstons’ sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 13, 2012, is now on line: Are you a music fan? A classical music fan? I am. I love the great symphonies – Beethoven’s Fifth, his Ninth, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, Dvorak’s From the New World, and many others – they just bowl me over. I can [...]
Know – Go – Show: Sermon for the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year B – May 6, 2012
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter is now on line: It was the summer of 1961; that was the second summer my cousins were there as well. Bob – two years old then me, Randy – 20 months younger, and I decided we wanted to build a tree house. So we asked [...]
The Lord Is My Shepherd: I HATE that! – Sermon for Easter 4 – April 29, 2012
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Easter is now on line: I hate the 23rd Psalm! Eight years of saying it every night of every summer will do that to you! I tried to get him to change that. “Granddad, couldn’t we learn another psalm now? Say Psalm 117?” (I was being pretty [...]
Have You Anthing Hear to Eat? – Sermon for Easter 3 – April 22, 2012
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the Third Sunday of Easter is now available on lined: I have to admit that I would be hard-pressed to choose one of the many post-resurrection appearances of Christ as my favorite. Each one recorded in Scripture is so full of vivid imagery and meaning that it would be nearly impossible [...]
Easter Sunday Sermon – April 8, 2012
The Rector’s sermon for the Feast of the Resurrection is now on line: In the run up to Easter which is the season of Lent several of us in this parish took some time out of our everyday lives to ponder the contemporary meaning of the ancient Hebrew writers we call “the Prophets.” We were [...]
Good Friday Sermon – April 6, 2012
The Rector’s sermon for Good Friday is now available on line: In the first act of the drama of redemption, Love tried to teach his lesson through bread and wine, through water and basin, through garden prayer, and through willing surrender to corrupt authority. The Body and Blood symbolically broken, the Body washing other bodies, [...]
Maundy Thursday Sermon – April 5, 2012
Fr. Funston’s sermon for the first day of the Triduum (“the three-days”, the church’s commemoration of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection) is now available on line. Redemption is a drama in three acts – three acts and a brief intermission – tonight we take part in Act One. Act One, Scene One: The curtain rises. We [...]
Palm Sunday Sermon – April 1, 2012
Father Funston’s sermon for Palm Sunday is now on line. We have just read the simple, yet dramatic story of our Lord’s Passion as related in Mark’s Gospel. But we began our worship this morning with John’s story of Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. In the span of a few minutes we covered an entire [...]
