Sermons Preached at Saint Mark's
Click on the image or title below for a given sermon to view the recording and read the transcript.
For sermons older than May 2026, head to the sermon archive page.
Click on the image or title below for a given sermon to view the recording and read the transcript.
For sermons older than May 2026, head to the sermon archive page.
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.… Read More
What do we return to God by giving it to the Emperor? What is our obligation to the state, to the political sphere of American engagement?… Read More
Once more Jesus spoke to the people in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.”… Read More
Jesus said, “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower.… Read More
The Acts of the Apostles is one of my favorite books of the Bible—beautifully moving, playfully whimsical at times, and, if we are honest, profoundly problematic. … Read More
Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.… Read More
Forty years ago, the sage bard Wendell Berry wrote these words: “It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”… Read More
Mirrors aren’t always flattering. Ask anyone who’s ever been in a fitting room. They capture sides of us we don’t want to see. The good news, though, is that they’re not completely accurate.… Read More
“Vengeance is mine…,” says the Lord.” Oh. Ok… “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.” Wowzer. Is that, is that the gospel? Does that sound like good news to you? … Read More