Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

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Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

Sermons from the clergy of the Church of the Redeemer, and Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, Cincinnati, OH.

  1. 20 OCT

    Letting baggage go - The Rev. Dr. Herschel Wade

    Not long ago, in a spiritual direction session, My companion and I spoke about the relinquishing of baggage. Letting baggage go to give space to my future self. Placing that baggage at the feet of Jesus. Placing that baggage on the altar as a sacrifice of a part of myself to God. Like a good and proper Gestalt pupil, I spoke to the future, my future self. It is a self that is not completely known. It is a self, fraught with uncertainty. But it is a self, pregnant with possibilities. Great possibilities, Holy possibilities, Spirit-infused possibilities. I don't remember exactly what I said to my future self. I do remember speaking about my fear of the unknown. A fear so great. I was dragging my feet. Sometimes I wanted to pick up my baggage and return to the place that I knew well.

    14 min

  2. 17 OCT

    Impossible - The Rev. Philip DeVaul

    Your salvation is not about you. It is about God. Now maybe you're not wealthy. Maybe money is not the issue for you. I invite you to close your eyes for a second and think. Like think about what are the things that you lean on to make sure you know that you're okay. What are they? Probably is money for a lot of us. You can open your eyes when you want. I grew up, um, I didn't grow up very much. I grew up short. Um, I was, I was, I was always the shortest kid in my class, um, I was never very athletic, I was never like, like one of the cool kids in that way, right? But I could talk myself into and out of anything. And I find myself even now trying to talk myself into and out of my own salvation. That's the way that I, that's the way that I know that I'm okay. So when I actually practice silent prayer, and I learn to shut up. God shows up and reminds me, I'm not talking my way into heaven. Heaven is showing up in my heart and in my life, if only I have eyes to see it and am willing to acknowledge my need for God.

    17 min

  3. 6 OCT

    All Things Ungodly and Other Reconcilable Differences - The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane

    We all know that divorce happens. It happens to married people. It happens to siblings. It happens to friends, and neighbors, and communities. It even happens to countries. Divorce, or the act of separating ourselves from one another, is the result of human error in understanding God's intentions for humanity. Divorce is a common response to our amnesia (or defiance) of the reality that human beings were made for relationship and that we actually need one another. We always have. You know who knows this? Children.

    14 min

  4. 29 SEPT

    The Path is made by Walking - The Rev. Joyce Keeshin

    In the business world I lived in, When someone said the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, that was not a good thing. That was talking about things falling apart pretty quickly. But here I believe Jesus is speaking with hyperbole, delivering a powerful message for us. To give our attention to whatever we are doing. What our hands are doing. Where our feet are carrying us. What our eyes are focused on. To be awake within ourselves and in our interactions with others. To not fall into or be in default ways of being that set up stumbling blocks for others, and that do not follow Jesus path of love. The path is made by walking. Walking makes the path. Sometimes it's clear when we're starting a new path. Choosing a new school, a new work position, retirement, sabbatical, being in a committed relationship, suffering, suffering a, a deep loss. New experiences with some direction to them. Sometimes they are anticipated, they are thought through over time, and sometimes they happen spontaneously.

    14 min

  5. 22 SEPT

    Row Row Row Your Boat - The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane

    In his arms, he holds an infant, and he says, "Be like this." Innocent, and dependent upon one another, unstained by the world; and open to being formed. Be like this. Curious seekers with BIG emotions. Be creative and adaptable; imitating me. Someone you can trust. Welcome the vulnerable into your midst, and be like them. For the leader among you is like the one who serves. There is a reason why, in the Gospels, Jesus implores his believers, his followers to be like little children. Born anew to a living hope.

    15 min

  6. 15 SEPT

    Following Jesus on My Terms - The Rev. Philip DeVaul

    Jesus says, follow me, but be prepared to be transformed. Talk about me, but if you're going to open your mouth and talk about exclusion, if you're going to cancel people, if you're going to kick them out of your life, out of this place, if you're going to deny your responsibility for the people around you, don't speak in Jesus name. If you're going to work in this world, To create a space that's good for you at the expense of others don't speak in Jesus name If you are going to stand up in this world and do work that is about your betterment and the betterment of a few other people around you that look sound and seem like you, please for the love of God don't speak in Jesus name. But when you get up in this world and you work for justice and peace in a way that humanizes and acknowledges the beauty of every single person. Whether you say the name of Jesus or not, you are speaking with the authority of the God who made you. When you dedicate your life to the care and concern of others and make sacrificial love your story, whether you say it's in Jesus name or not, it is Jesus who speaks within you.

    13 min

  7. 14 SEPT

    Backtalk - The Rev. Dr. Herschel Wade

    Are you beset with gloom? Gloomy because someone like me refuses to accept your dehumanizing dream, crushing his nose for an answer? Oh well, still I rise. Maya audacious, defiant backtalk is a sassy refusal to accept the life restricting consequences of the denials, discrimination, and oppression by a dominant center and patriarchal system. Today we hear of a similar sassy refusal to accept a denial of life in our Gospel reading. Here too, we hear backtalk to someone in a position of power, supernatural power, that is, whose denial of life and wholeness is also one of discrimination and exclusivity. The episode is tense, upsetting and complicated. I cannot speak for you, but such is certainly true for myself and in fact, the same appears to be true for the author of the Gospel of Mark who locates a tired and possibly quite aggravated Jesus in the region of Thyre, a Gentile dominated territory. It is hard to imagine Jesus being at ease. He is alone, attempting to go unnoticed in a house in a region in which there is some history of animosity between the Jews and the Gentiles.

    14 min

  8. 4 SEPT

    The Hate We Carry - The Rev. Philip DeVaul

    I need to say this, by the way, in this conversation, if I don't say this, I will be very remiss. Anger and hatred are not the same thing. And many of you were raised, especially women, were raised to believe that anger was bad and you should not have it or keep it to yourself. We were taught that you shouldn't be angry about anything. And you might be worried that what I'm saying right now is that you should never be angry because that's bad friends. Anger is not inherently bad. In fact, anger is a very natural part of our lives. Anger is a base emotion that we all must have sometimes. In fact , there is a problem if you see injustice, hatred, violence, murder, oppression, cruelty, and hatred, and anger does not arise in you. We're supposed to feel angry in the face of that which is deeply wrong. I'm not saying don't be angry, but as the epistle writer James says, your anger is not the thing that makes God righteous. We do not want to allow our anger to become self-righteous.

    15 min
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