Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church: Recent Episodes
Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church
A progressive, welcoming spiritual community affiliated with the Episcopal Church located in Greencastle, IN.
The Stories We TellAs we can see from the story of Joseph and his brothers, the stories we tell can make us who we are–for good and for ill.
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“Have You Understood All This?”We don’t have to “understand” the Kingdom of Heaven perfectly; we are invited to keep saying yes to God’s mysterious, disruptive work even when it doesn’t make any sense.
*please note, sermon cuts out for a moment due to microphone technical issues.
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Learning to LoveThe Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds has many life lessons for us all–key among them, how to love our enemies.
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The Binding of IsaacThis very difficult text has tensions that cannot be resolved–but at its it tells us that we need to know the foundation of our choices and actions.
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Sunday, June 21 SermonSunday, June 21 Sermon by Rev. Mark Van Wassenhove
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Trinity SundayTrinity Sunday Sermon Podcast
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Promises and ChallengesThe story of Pentecost is a promise that God is nearer than we would ever dare imagine, but also a challenge that if the Spirit now dwells within us that our lives are opened to God.
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Love one another as I have loved youThe prayer Jesus offers to God–every word heard by his disciples–lays out the deep love of full knowing that is given to and asked of us.
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Blessed and a BlessingFor Rogation Days and Creation care, we are urged to count our blessings–and to turn our lives and our hearts to be blessings to creation.
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I AM the WayThinking about John 14:6 as a compassionate call to being beloved.
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SERMON SERIES: KING DAVIDHEALING, HEALER, AND LAMENTPopular imagination, celebrates David’s power, charisma, and success. But he is more complex: and his lament in times of brokenness lead us to necessity and the gift in lament and brokenness.
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SERMON SERIES: KING DAVIDWHY “SIN IS OUR ONLY HOPE”When King David confesses his terrible crimes, we see the devastation of sin, but also a possibility of turning back to the good.
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SERMON SERIES: KING DAVIDSEEING THE SHADOW SELF; BELOVED OF GODThe narrative of king David includes his very worst. It also assures us that God will continue to reach out to us, even as we need to change.
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SERMON SERIES: KING DAVIDTHE TIP OF THE ICEBERGThe Bible reminds us that even the most revered human is flawed. Under the iceberg we see the complete David.
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SERMON SERIES: KING DAVIDTHE PROBLEM WITH KINGSAfter what looks like a fairytale about a young prince, the story of King David begins to look more like the Game of Thrones, and we hear the echo of Samuel’s warnings about the problem with kings.
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SERMON SERIES: KING DAVIDDAVID THE SHEPARDWe see a full expression of God’s work in our lives, and of human faith and failings in the life of King David.
David is called as a young shepherd boy, and we are reminded that God sees with the heart, not the eyes, and that none of us is too small or unimportant to be called to God’s service.
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HIS LAST MESSAGEJesus’s last message to his disciples includes an act of love and compassion: to pray for them. We follow Jesus’s example to focus our hearts and minds those who need love and compassion, and to increase our capacity to notice and care.
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ROGATION SUNDAYWe celebrate God and God’s gifts to us. May we be blest in Word made flesh, in Word made soil. The creative Word of God that has brought about this good earth and all that is in it.
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SHEEP & GENEROSITY FOR SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAMThe Summer Enrichment Program provides positive developmental, educational, recreational and social interventions to meet the needs of elementary school-aged children in Putnam County.
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SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAMThe Summer Enrichment Program provides positive developmental, educational, recreational and social interventions to meet the needs of elementary school-aged children in Putnam County.
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SUNDAY AFTER EASTERDo something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Love people who do not deserve it. Ask the questions that have no answers. Practice Resurrection.
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EASTER SUNDAY – PRACTICE RESSURECTIONWe may be like the disciples, who look on in disbelief at the claim of the empty tomb and the risen, Christ, but we, like they, can change the world if we practice resurrection.
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MAUNDY THURSDAYReflections on Maundy Thursday and loving one another.
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NONE BETTERObserving both Palm and Passion Sunday at the same time, reminds us of our limitations, and that those limitations do not stop us from being Jesus’s hands and heart in the world.
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WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?On this fourth Sunday of Lent we are urged to look with raw honesty at our sin, and to look with thanksgiving at the abundant mercy and saving power of Almighty God.
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Freedom To and Freedom FromThe Ten Commandments are the basis of our freedom—our freedom to live lives of depth, purpose, and righteousness. Living such a life requires guidelines and dedication, all freely chosen and practiced through a lifetime.
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The Other Kind of TemptationPeter’s temptation of Jesus at Caesarea Philippi, warning Jesus away from his path to the cross, is the kind of temptation we might meet at any moment in daily life. It can come in the voice of a friend, a teacher, a family member who loves us and wants “the best” for us–and to protect us from ugly repercussions. Lent is our time for attention and practice so that we may stay steady on the path of following Jesus.
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Embracing the WildernessAsh Wednesday and Lent bring us again and again to a subject most of us want to avoid: our mortality. But the invitation to a holy Lent should fill us with hope and optimism: we can change, we can have richer relationship with God and with each other, we can lay down burdens and regrets. We are dust, but dust that is beloved, blessed, and animated by the Holy One, invited to draw closer and to change our ways.
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Walk in Faith Sermon by Rev Jennifer Oldstone-Moore
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Special thanks to John Clodfelter for sharing his music gift with the parish on June 5, 2016. He is continuing graduate studies in music at the University of North Dakota.
This post “War March of the Priests,” from Athalie, Op. 74 by Felix Mendelssohn – Played by Saint Andrew’s Organist Emeritus, John Clodfelter is on the Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church website.