St. Thomas Episcopal Church: Recent Episodes
St. Thomas Episcopal Church | Medina
Sermons and Adult Formation series from St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Medina, WA. www.stthomasmedina.org
The Rev. Dr. Jane Maynard recounts the remarkable story of Joseph and invites us to consider the ways family dynamics are affected by our insecurities, doubt, and distance from God and neighbor.
This sermon was preached on the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, January 30, 2022, by Ashley Boaeuf Lange, Associate for communications and evangelism at St. Thomas. Ashley invites us to consider the challenging aspects of Jesus' ministry through the eyes of a bystander. This sermon was presented as a companion to Pastor Jane's January 23rd sermon.
Sermon for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost 2021, September 26, 2021, delivered by Sunni Bannon, Director of Ministries at St. Thomas.
In these strange days, who doesn’t feel a lack of things? Who doesn’t feel that things are scarce? Even the most cheerful optimist can’t be blamed for occasionally feeling like the walls are closing in. We are, after all, living in times like none...
We all know what it feels like to attempt to flee from danger. When we have been kicked so hard by the losses and tragedies of our lives that we can hardly breath because the pain has knocked the wind out of us: the death of a dream, a career, a...
Fr. Lex gets a case of the blues and realizes that what he’s really missing is people and his community. But here we are in Easter. And in this Easter season, we are offered hope.
We’re all feeling a little weary, a little small. As the hours and the days turn into weeks, it’s becoming harder and harder to see what we really want to see. And you know, what we really want to see is how it’s all going to turn out. We want to...
It’s not easy for us to see anything redemptive in our present human suffering. Our culture far more easily goes to a place of seeing suffering and pain as a hindrance to profit or progress, an occasion to blame, perhaps something you deserve, or...
Fr. Steve examines how we can embrace uncertainty while still celebrating the risen Lord.
Fr. Lex examines grief and loss, and what it means in these trying times to ask “Where is God in all of this?”
The Rev. Sarah Butler Ginolfi talks about her childhood fears of the dark, and how this sheds light on our journey back to God.
Fr. Lex asks where the Lord is among us in the troubled times, much as the people of Israel did.
Guest preacher Bill Adams preaches on the Constancy of God, beginning with reference to Psalm 121 and proceeding through to the Gospel of John.