This is Us

Who are we? In times of change, or in the wake of great transition, we look around and wonder. Who are we? Big changes often change us. When our health or the health of a loved one degrades, and there’s no returning to how it was before. When our lives are turned...

Turning Points and Transformation

Turning Points and Transformation (Feast of the Transfiguration) Exodus 34: 29-35; Psalm 99; 2 Peter 1:13-21; Luke 9:28-36 Turning points and transformation – that’s what we’re about today – turning points and transformation.  Jesus is transformed, and he arrives at a...

Kaleidoscopes and the Kingdom

July 29, 2017 Sermon by The Rev. Jacqueline C. Thomson Proper 12A-2 Genesis 29:15-28; Psalm 105:1-11, 45b; Romans 8:26-39; Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 Kaleidoscopes.  I remember these toys from my childhood; do you?  It was fun to hold one and look into the light, to...

What Kind of Dreamer are You?

July 23, 2017 Sermon by The Rev. Jacqueline C. Thomson Proper 11 A Genesis 28:10-19a; Psalm 139:1-11, 22-23; Romans 8:12-25; Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43   What kind of dreamer are you?  There are two kinds of dreams, I would suggest – the dreams we think about...

God, the Extravagant Gardener

July 9, 2017 Sermon by the The Rev. Jacqueline C. Thomson PROPER 10A-3 Isaiah 55:1-5, 10-13; Psalm 65:9-14; Romans 8:9-17; Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 How does your garden grow?  We’re nearly midway through the summer – hard as that is for me to believe – and it’s...

God Will Not Stop Loving Anyone

By The Rev. Anne Michele Turner, Bridge Interim Rector Genesis 21:8-21 Every so often, I hear people talking with a certain nostalgia about biblical family values.  Clearly, those people have not read the book of Genesis. All summer long, we are going to hear stories...
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