On Annual Meeting Sunday, we remember that the Church begins not with performance but with identity. A sermon on light, grace, growth, discernment, and the living story of St. John’s in 2025.
Dirty Baptisms and the God Who Meets Us There
At the muddy edge of the Jordan, God speaks a name before anything is earned or achieved. Baptism reveals a grace that steps into our mess and claims us as beloved, delighted in, and forever God’s own.
The Voiceprint of God: Christmas Peace in a Noisy World
In a world of constant noise, there is a deeper voice beneath the headlines, pings, and hot takes. Christmas reveals a God who comes close, comes low, and speaks your name with unforgetting love.
Preparing the Way: A New Sunday Rhythm Beginning January 11
Advent is about paying attention to new life where we least expect it. Drawing on Isaiah, John the Baptist, and the life of the parish, this sermon explores growth, change, and why making room matters in the season ahead.
They Locked Him Out of Church—God Had Other Plans
Charles Simeon’s ministry began in rejection but ended in renewal. Through faithful preaching and cheerful patience, he showed that grace—not popularity—sustains the servant of the gospel.
Cardboard Crowns and Big Time Glory: Why You’re a Saint and Don’t Even Know It
Heaven is nearer than we think. The saints aren’t just stained glass heroes of old—they’re the ordinary, faithful people through whom God keeps on loving the world even today. Discover the beauty of belonging to the great cloud of witnesses.
The Light You Carry: On Shame, Truth and Coming Out
Some truths take a lifetime to name—but when we do, shame loses its grip and healing begins. This reflection honors the sacred act of coming out and the courage it takes to step into the light.
Get Off the Couch: Dangerous Comfort and Defiant Love
Luxury numbs us, scarcity lies to us, and comfort destroys compassion—but Jesus invites us to something far better: a life of defiant generosity, unyielding hope, and abundant grace.
The Resistance of Hope and Ethics of Mercy
In yet another week of devastating violence, he calls us to resist despair not with rage, but with mercy. Mercy is not softness—it is grace with a spine. If God has not given up on us, then we dare not give up on one another.
It’s Not the Building. It’s You. It Was Always You.
St. John’s is more than wood and stained glass—it is people living out their baptismal call as ministers of Christ. Discover how deep roots, true belonging, and abundant grace come alive in everyday acts of service.