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Sermon 10.27.24 A Place for Embrace
The Audio/Video for this sermon had technical issues. What makes church, church? I mean we all have our thing, right? It’s not church, if...
standrewcin
Oct 29, 20247 min read


Sermon 10.20.24 Do you "Get It"?
Sermong begins at 17: 05. The video was interrupted during livestream, so the end of the sermon is not on the video. The philosopher...
standrewcin
Oct 23, 20246 min read


Sermon 10.13.24 Notice your Word
Sermon Begins at 33:32 Good Morning St. Andrew’s This morning I am moved to preach to you: Notice your Word. I don’t know if you’ve...
standrewcin
Oct 15, 20246 min read


Sermon 9.29.24 We All Need Somebody
Sermon Begins at 23:05 What do we do when hard times hit? When things seem to be bigger and more powerful than we are? When we seem to be...
standrewcin
Oct 7, 20247 min read


Sermon 9.22.24 The Relevance of Envy
Sermon begins at 17:15 Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are...
standrewcin
Sep 23, 202410 min read


Sermon 9.15.24 Feast of the Holy Cross & Pizza
Sermon begins at 30:25 The first thing that I notice when I look around the church this morning is how many of you have in the past, or...
standrewcin
Sep 17, 20247 min read


Sermon 9.15.24 Just Is, Just Us, or Justice?
In her poem for the inauguration of President Joseph R Biden, Amanda Gorman began like this, “When day comes we ask ourselves, ‘where can...
standrewcin
Sep 12, 20246 min read


Sermon 8.25.24 Positive Childhood Experiences
Sermon Begins at 29:00 A few weeks ago, our lesson from the Hebrew Bible was the story of Absalom. Maybe you remember that the lesson...
standrewcin
Sep 4, 202410 min read


Sermon 8.18.24 Be Careful?
Sermon Begins at 23:47 Good Morning St. Andrew’s. Shock. Anxiety. Horror. Terrible things could happen. Terrible things will happen....
standrewcin
Aug 19, 20248 min read


Sermon 8.11.24 Learning to Fly
Sermon begins at 14:34 In her 1977 book, Song of Solomon , Toni Morrison centers her story of a young black man and his struggles with...
standrewcin
Aug 12, 20245 min read


Sermon 8.4.24 Ordinary Bread or Living Bread?
Good Morning Everyone, I want to say welcome to anyone who is visiting us for the first time today and for those who are joining us...
standrewcin
Aug 12, 20245 min read


Sermon 7.28.24 You're a Real Crumb!
Sermon begins at 56:41 Good Morning St. Andrew’s. This morning we are delighted to be able to welcome our brand new bishop, Bishop White...
standrewcin
Jul 29, 20247 min read


Sermon 7.21.24 Legacy Building
Sermon begins at 9:14 Good Morning St. Andrew’s, I was only gone for one week, and I have been back at Summer Reading Camp this week, but...
standrewcin
Jul 24, 20248 min read


Sermon 6.30.24 Pauli Murray: The Survivor
I have a little confession to make. I went to a church service the other day called “Drag me to Church.” It wasn’t called this, because...
standrewcin
Jul 2, 20249 min read


Sermon 6.23.24 Calming the Waves of Internal Oppression
Sermon begins at 30:26 This week, several of us were able to attend the Union of Black Episcopalians Annual Conference in Louisville,...
standrewcin
Jun 28, 20246 min read


Sermon 6.16.24 The Resurrection of Sawney Freeman
Good Morning St. Andrew’s and Happy Juneteenth week and Happy Father’s Day. My mother-in-law has a little tiny sign in her front flower...
standrewcin
Jun 17, 20247 min read


Sermon 6.9.24 I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke
I'd like to build a world a home And furnish it with love Grow apple trees and honey bees And snow white turtle doves I'd like to teach...
standrewcin
Jun 10, 20248 min read


Sermon 6.2.24 The Importance of Interpretation
I’m moved to preach to you this morning about something that we often take for granted; Interpretation. Interpretation is one of the most...
standrewcin
Jun 3, 20249 min read


Sermon 5.26.24 Memorial Day and Human Memory
Good Morning St. Andrew’s and Happy Memorial Day, Happy Trinity Sunday. A special greeting to our veterans this morning as we memorialize...
standrewcin
Jun 3, 20248 min read


Sermon 5.19.24 Pentecost: The Fall of Monoculture
In December 2021, the European Union released a report about the problems of monoculture farming called, The Rise and Fall of Monoculture...
standrewcin
May 20, 20247 min read
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