Field Notes: Stories from St. Martin's

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Sermons, teaching, and interviews from St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas. We seek to proclaim the Good New of Jesus Christ, so that the people of northeast Tarrant County and beyond might know they are loved by God.

  1. 2d ago

    The Faith That Shocked Jesus: The Canaanite Woman’s Radical Courage

    In this powerful sermon, William Pearson explores the encounter between Jesus and the Canaanite woman in the Gospel of Matthew [00:03]. Set right after Jesus' teaching on ritual purity, this story reveals a radical, boundary-breaking faith that confronts social hierarchies, prejudice, and human expectations [00:26].Discover how a mother's desperate love and unrelenting faith allowed her to glimpse the Kingdom of God—and what it teaches us about overcoming the barriers in our own lives today [04:22].📖 Scripture Focus: Matthew 15📍 Speaker: William Pearson⛪ Church: St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church

  2. Aug 10

    God In The Silence

    The Reverend Ellen Singer delivers the sermon for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, "God in the Silence".

  3. Aug 3

    What Happens When You Offer God Your Nothing?

    In 1897 a group of Texas educators went looking for a cooler place to hold a summer school. Boulder, Colorado, won the contract. The trouble was the site: a bare mesa at the foot of the mountains with nothing on it but grass and rock and a view. Thousands of people would soon board trains in Fort Worth, ride north, and arrive at the end of a long journey, hungry. Boulder had fifty three days.Hold that hillside, because it is where the Gospel starts.Jesus has just heard that John the Baptist is dead. He gets in a boat looking for a deserted place to grieve, and the crowds follow him around the shore on foot. Thousands of them. Grieving and exhausted, he looks at them and his stomach turns over with mercy. Evening comes and the disciples do the math and bring him the only sensible plan anyone has: send them away. Jesus says no. They need not go away. And when the disciples protest that five loaves and two fish is nothing, he does not tell them to try harder or find more. He says, bring them here to me.This sermon is about what God does with our nothing. Everyone ate. Everyone was filled. And there were twelve baskets left over, more at the end than at the beginning, which is not arithmetic. That is what God is like. Nobody on that grass was asked where they came from, or whether they had earned it, or whether they had done the right things. Jesus fed a crowd he never vetted. Thank God, because if he had, none of us would be at this table.Empty hands are not a disqualification. Empty hands are what Jesus asks for.Reading: Matthew 14:13-21 (Proper 13)Preached on Call to Feed the Hungry SundaySt. Martin's Episcopal Church, Keller, Texas

  4. Jul 20

    God Likes You

    The Rev. Dr. Sean Neil of Grace Lutheran delivers the sermon for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost, "God Likes You!"

  5. Jul 20

    Praying For Rain

    The Reverend Ellen Singer preaches her sermon for the 7th Sunday after Pentecost.

  6. Jun 30

    Wow, God!

    All week at Vacation Bible School the kids learned a "festal shout," two big words for whenever they saw how amazing God is. Wow, God! This VBS Sunday children's message starts there, with the line from our psalm, happy are the people who know the festal shout, and turns it loose on a place every kid in Keller knows: the Fort Worth Zoo. There is a marker at the zoo that tells a story most people walk right past. Long ago a flood washed the very first Fort Worth Zoo away, but the people found safe, higher ground and started it over, and it became the oldest zoo in Texas, still open today. That one little sign carries almost everything the kids learned this week. God made everything. God knows everything. God is our safe place. And God is forever. The loudest Wow of all comes last, the one we save for the end: God is love, shown on a cross and an empty tomb, a love that lasts forever and ever. A short, joyful message for the whole family, with plenty of room for the kids to shout along.

  7. Jun 28

    Buried Twice

    Outside Pilot Point there is a cemetery called St. John's, the oldest Black cemetery in Denton County. Around four hundred people are buried there, and only about twenty graves still have a stone. Someone working to save it said these people have been buried twice. Once in the ground, and once by being forgotten. This short homily from our early service starts on that ground and lets Paul answer it. The wages of sin is death, he writes, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Not a better wage. A gift. Left to ourselves, we are dead and forgotten, and no marker holds that back forever. But God knows every name, even the ones the stones have lost, and he does not only remember the dead. He raises them. Eternal, abundant, forever, the life of the age to come, freely given at the table. Reading: Romans 6:12-23 (Proper 6) Part of Roman Roads, a summer series through Paul's letter to the Romans, each week paired with a historical marker from the roads around us.

  8. Jun 14

    The Bad News That Makes the Good News Good

    Three historical markers stand within a few steps of each other on a trail in North Arlington. One remembers a peacemaker who freed captives and brought them home. One remembers a raid that attacked a village. One remembers a treaty that opened a people's land to be taken. A mercy, a killing, and a displacement, all on the same small patch of ground. That is where this sermon begins.It turns out Paul stands his people on honest ground too. Romans 5 does not arrive until he has spent chapters proving that no one is righteous, not one. He tells the worst of the story first. And only then comes the line that changes everything: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.This is not a sermon about cleaning up your past in order to be loved. It is the announcement that the love came first, and that is the only thing that ever makes honesty survivable. We can tell the whole truth about ourselves, and about our history, because we are not justified by the story being clean. We are justified by faith. In a year when the country is arguing over how to tell its own story, that turns out to be good news.Part of Roman Roads, a summer series walking straight through Paul's letter to the Romans, one passage at a time, each week paired with a real Texas historical marker standing on the roads around us.Reading: Romans 5:1-8 (Proper 6)Markers: Jesse Chisholm, the Site of Bird's Fort, and the Sloan-Journey Expedition, North Arlington

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Sermons, teaching, and interviews from St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas. We seek to proclaim the Good New of Jesus Christ, so that the people of northeast Tarrant County and beyond might know they are loved by God.

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    2024 - 2026
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