What if faith asks us not to expect a particular future, but to anticipate that God is still at work? In creation something is always happening—and Scripture invites us to pay attention with curiosity and wonder. Rather than deciding in advance what God should do, we are called to become...
Grace Episcopal Outreach MInistry SpotlightBonus content on the Glimpses of Grace podcast feed Welcome to the next episode of the Grace Episcopal Outreach Ministry Spotlight, a series on the Glimpses of Grace podcast highlighting community partners supported by the Grace Episcopal Outreach Ministry in Gainesville and Hall County, Georgia. Each...
As Jesus likens the Kingdom of Heaven to a mustard seed, we are called to watch what is growing in our lives. What are we consciously planting and what grew while we weren't paying attention? How do we cultivate what we've inherited and how do we pass it on? The...
When our lives break into pieces, our wounds can become the whole horizon, making it difficult to see the life and light still surrounding us. Scripture reminds us that we are not self-contained or alone: in Christ, all things hold together, and the fountain of life continues to flow. Becoming...
How do we engage the well-known parable of the Good Samaritan beyond our familiar moral categories? What if the wounded person lying in the ditch wasn't just a neighbor in need, but a deep wound within our own lives that we are challenged to attend to? What if we pause,...
What does it mean to remain yourself while everything around you—and within you—is changing? This sermon reflects on the mystery of becoming through childhood memory, the rhythms of creation, the parable of the fig tree, and God’s promise to make all things new. God’s order is not the stillness of...
In times of uncertainty, our human impulse is to grasp for control. Part of us yearns for a firmer grounding, yet there is also the Spirit's call to dive into the deep waters and be saturated by a grace that we can trust. How do we nurture a deeper awareness...
We spend much of our lives becoming who we think the world needs us to be, often hiding the beloved self God delighted in from the beginning. Drawing on Solomon’s prayer for a listening heart and Jesus’ parables of the mustard seed and hidden treasure, this sermon explores healing as...
Jacob wasn’t searching for God—he was running. Yet in an ordinary place in the desert, with nothing but a stone for a pillow, he awakened to an awesome truth that heaven was already near. This sermon invites us to see God’s kingdom not as a distant place, but as the...
Scripture texts from all of today’s readings proclaim an idea that great joy is beheld when the fullness of God’s goodness is brought forth unto flourishing throughout all creation. This sermon focuses on today’s Gospel text—The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23)—and proclaims that such abundance can become a...