Sermons

Sermon Preached at All Saints’ Chicago (virtually and in person) on Sunday, June 13, 2021. 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6): Mark 4:26-34 I speak to you in the name of one God, Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit. Amen + I’ve recently started watching a new PBS series called “Human: The World Within.” It is […]Read more “Exercising the Muscle of Faith”

+In the Name of God:  who was, and is, and is to come.  Amen. “Then Jesus went home; and the crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat.  When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, ‘He has gone out of his […]Read more “The Family of God”

Last week I was talking to one of my colleagues about yet another of the delightful posts he had written describing the theological musings/pronouncements  of his four year old son, Isaac.  Something to do with the Holy Spirit, I believe.  It made sense given that Pentecost had just happened.  I jokingly asked Eric what Isaac […]Read more “The Holy Trinity and Flash Mobs”

Who among us – mother, father, aunt, uncle, grandparent, or friend – has not spent time deeply engaged with a young child in a game of “peek-a-boo?” You know that game, where you are before a young child and you either hide behind your hands or their favorite blanket, and then pop out and say […]Read more “Ascension Day Sermon (transferred) 2021”

At the risk of you getting your own ear worm, I quote from the iconic Tina Tuner. What’s love got to do with it.  What’s love but a second hand emotion.  Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? Every time I’ve read the gospel appointed today over the past few weeks, this […]Read more “What’s Love Got to do with It?”

I speak to you in the name of one God, Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit. Amen + “All are welcome, because all belong…All are welcome, because all belong” For decades, the Episcopal Church has used the slogan “The Episcopal Church Welcomes You.” You can find this slogan on almost every Episcopal church street sign with […]Read more “All are Welcome, because All Belong”

+In the Name of God: who was, and is, and is to come.  Amen Jesus said, “I am the Good Shepherd.” John 10:11 This past week, one of All Saints’ faithful parishioners stopped by the office with a gift for the church. It’s a beautiful, framed photograph of two panels from a stained-glass window. One […]Read more “Good Shepherds for Each Other”

I speak to you in the name of one God, Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit. Amen + From today’s Gospel, “While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering.” People experience surprises in different ways. Some people love surprises…they love the anticipation of knowing something is about to happen but not exactly what that […]Read more “The God of Surprises”

+In the Name of God: who was, and is, and is to come.  Amen Living God, for whom no door is closed, no heart is locked, draw us beyond our doubts, till we see your Christ and touch his wounds where they bleed in others.  Amen. New Zealand Prayer Book, The Fourth Sunday of Easter […]Read more “Reaching out with wounded hands”

I speak to you in the name of one God, Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit. Amen + Alleluia, Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!  It is so right that we proclaim and shout this message from the mountain tops this morning, because friends, we need Easter more this year than ever before…I […]Read more “Transformation Begins in the Darkness”

+In the Name of God who was, and is, and is to come. They brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. Then those who went ahead […]Read more “A Parade, a Protest March, & a Funeral Procession”

I speak to you in the name of one God, Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit. Amen + We often think of Lent as a time of giving things up. This year, I’ve heard a number of people giving up alcohol, or chocolate, or meat. The hope is that in giving something up we push things […]Read more “Give in to God”

Look at it and live I come to you in the name of the One in whom all our hope is founded, Creator, Christ and Holy Spirit. Amen From the book of Numbers: “Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people died…. So Moses prayed […]Read more “Look at it and Live”

+In the Name of God who was, and is, and is to come. Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. . .  Exodus 20:1-2 One of my friends and colleagues is an Episcopal priest whose […]Read more “‘Yes’ is a Complete Sentence”

I speak to you in the name of one God, Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit. Amen + From our Genesis passage this morning, “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham. As for Sarai your […]Read more “Continue to Covenant- The Story is far from Over”

+In the Name of God who was, and is, and is to come. God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign […]Read more ““A Community that Covenants””

I come to you in the name of the Creator, Redeemer, and Holy Spirit. My name is Jacqueline WayneGuite. I’ve been a parishioner at All Saints for about five years, and I’m really honored to be preaching today, on Ash Wednesday. Today is the beginning of Lent, a season of preparation. One we’re told to […]Read more “A Season of Preparation”

John Shea, in his book Starlight: Beholding the Christmas Miracle All Year Long, tells a story about being at a Christmas party and realizing that it is impossible to return to the world as we know it after casually wandering up to the mantel and seeing the nativity scene.  Knowing that the Word became flesh […]Read more “God In Us Made Manifest”

+In the Name of God who was, and is, and is to come. As soon as [Jesus and his disciples] left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever,                                    and they told him about her at once. He came and […]Read more “Service vs. Entitlement”

My friends and fellow classmates from seminary have an ongoing text chain titled, “things they didn’t teach us in seminary.” During the pandemic, the number of entries, as you can imagine, has drastically increased with things like “becoming a Zoom expert, videographer, and sound editor,” but it was today’s gospel lesson, where we hear of […]Read more “Asking for the Holy Spirit’s Help”