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Living Stories Sermons
If you were with us this week, you may know that our sermon and Gospel passage was a little different! This is in part due to a...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Jun 11, 20252 min read


Singing in the dark, in the rubble
There are stories in scripture that feel far away—ancient, dusty, written from a context for which we have to dig for an ability to...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Jun 4, 20255 min read


Be Aware and Choose
God of mind and spirit, of muscle and bone We come together because we need you, We need each other, And we need to hear your word. And...
trinityepiscopal20
May 27, 20257 min read


Costly Love
In the name of the God who knelt to wash our feet, who chose the cross instead of revenge, and who calls us still to love like that....

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
May 21, 20255 min read


The Shepherd calls us back to life
We hear this morning of a resurrection story. This time it is not Jesus, or Lazarus, or Jairus’s daughter raised from the dead, it is a...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
May 13, 20255 min read


Meeting us at the fire
I love a campfire. I have a plethora of my own memories and stories from campfires on the beaches on the other side of Lake Superior when...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
May 7, 20255 min read


A God who cannot be doubted is not worth believing in.
God of all Wisdom-- We come together because we need you, Because we need each other, And because we need to hear your Word. And if we...
John Austin
Apr 30, 20255 min read


Nothing prevents God, Alleluia!
Twelve years ago this week, I was in a production of the musical Godspell. If you’re not familiar, Godspell is a musical about the life...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Apr 30, 20255 min read


Preparing to Lose Jesus
Today, we receive a story that exists in some format or other throughout all four of the Gospels. The story of a woman, anointing Jesus...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Apr 9, 20256 min read


Jesus our Mother Hen
When I was going through the discernment process, which is church speak for the communal way an individual determines if they are...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Mar 18, 20256 min read


Lent 1 and Ash Wednesday reflection
One of my favorite ways that I have heard sin talked about is less about things you’ve done, thoughts you’ve had, that made us good or...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Mar 11, 20253 min read


Do the thing, all y’all, with grace…
We pick up today where we left off with last week’s Gospel. We heard the first half of the sermon on the plain, where Jesus offers...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Feb 26, 20256 min read


Yikes, We’ve accepted the status quo, when we could have the kingdom…
God of blessing and woe, disturbing the deadly order of the world: give us faith tested in poverty, hunger for what really satisfies,...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Feb 18, 20256 min read


Sermon for the 5th Sunday after the Epiphany
God of all purpose and all meaning, We come together because we need you And we need each other, And we need to hear your word. And if we...
John Austin
Feb 11, 20256 min read


Two turtle doves
One of the greatest gifts we have in Scripture—perhaps because it is good literature, or it can be read or interpreted in a multitude of...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Feb 4, 20256 min read


Prophesy fulfilled in our hearing
Friends, it is so good to be back with you. This is a wild time to return to you all, and I am so grateful. If you are not aware, much of...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Jan 29, 20255 min read


Sermon for 2nd Sunday in Epiphany, January 19, 2025
God be in our head, and in our understanding. God be in our eyes, and in our looking. God be in our mouth, and in our speaking. God be in...
John Austin
Jan 29, 20254 min read


Sermon for Trinity Episcopal-Houghton, January 5, 2025
Open our hearts, O Spirit. open our minds and our spirits. Let us use what you have given us. Let us trust what you have shown us. Let us...
Sherry Mattson
Jan 29, 20256 min read


The Prophetic Communion of Elizabeth and Mary
While I never made an official announcement at the beginning of this Advent season, you may have seen in our bulletin or email, that...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Dec 17, 20246 min read


Fear Not
If you have sat near the kiddos in our service or been to a fellowship hour in the last few weeks, you may have noticed that my kiddo,...

Rev. Sarah Diener-Schlitt
Dec 4, 20245 min read
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