Latest Always for us Podcast Episodes
Good Friday: God of Love & Non-Violence
Friendship with God - April 10, 2020 19:00 - 32 minutesSermon at Good Friday Service. Scripture: John 18:1--19:37 (Passion of Jesus Christ According to John)
Maundy Thursday: Intimacy & Vulnerability
Friendship with God - April 09, 2020 19:00 - 5 minutesSermon at Maundy Thursday Service. Scripture: John 13:1-17, 31b-35.
Lent 5: We Have Been Resuscitated
Friendship with God - March 29, 2020 14:00 - 12 minutesSermon for Fifth Sunday in Lent. Scripture John 11:1-45
Lent 4: Well Done Good & Faithful Servants!
Friendship with God - March 22, 2020 15:00 - 11 minutesSunday Sermon for Fourth Sunday in Lent. Scripture: John 9:1-41.
Lent 1 - God Empowers Us to Resist Temptation
Friendship with God - March 01, 2020 18:00 - 10 minutesSermon on the First Sunday in Lent. Scripture: Gen 2:15-17; 3:1-7 and Mt 4:1-11
Last Epiphany: We're Going On A Journey
Friendship with God - February 23, 2020 19:00 - 17 minutesSunday Sermon on the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, which focuses on Jesus' transfiguration in the Gospel of Matthew17:1-9.
Epiphany 6: Choosing Life
Friendship with God - February 16, 2020 19:00 - 24 minutesSunday's Sermon on the Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany. Scripture: Deut 30:15-20 and Mt 5:21-37.
Epiphany 5: Seasoning & Shining for God
Friendship with God - February 09, 2020 19:00 - 21 minutesSunday's Sermon on the Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany. Scripture: 1 Cor 2:1-16 and Mt 5:13-20.
Presentation: We Present Ourselves to God
Friendship with God - February 02, 2020 19:00 - 13 minutesSunday's Sermon on the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord. Scripture: Lk 2:22-40.
Epiphany 3: Being Awakened to the Spiritual Life
Friendship with God - January 26, 2020 19:00 - 24 minutesSunday's Sermon on the Third Sunday After the Epiphany. Scripture: Mt 4:12-23.
Epiphany 2: Building Relationships
Friendship with God - January 19, 2020 19:00 - 21 minutesSunday's Sermon on the Second Sunday After the Epiphany. Scripture: Jn 1:29-42.
Epiphany 1: Commissioned with a Purpose
Friendship with God - January 12, 2020 18:00 - 12 minutesSermon on The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of our Lord. Scripture: Mt 3:13-17.
Christmas 2 - Our Need for Divine Revelation
Friendship with God - January 05, 2020 17:00 - 16 minutesSunday's Sermon on Christmas 2 on the Gospel of Matthew 2:1-12.
Christmas 1 - God Trusts Us - Lets Trust God
Friendship with God - December 29, 2019 18:00 - 8 minutesSunday Sermon for Christmas 1 on John 1:1-18
Advent 4 - God needs Joseph's "Yes"
Friendship with God - December 22, 2019 19:00 - 19 minutesSunday Sermon for Advent 4 on Matthew 1:18-25. Today's Gospel is about Joseph, having learned that Mary is pregnant, struggles with tough love. He balances his love for Mary, which continues to treat her with dignity and respect, with the reality of the consequences of her actions that cannot b...
Advent 3 - Is it Okay that God is God and We are Not?
Friendship with God - December 15, 2019 17:00 - 12 minutesRector's Sermon on the 3rd Sunday of Advent. Matthew 11:2-11 Gospel and First Reading from Isaiah 35:1-10. John the Baptist sends messengers to ask Jesus if he is the Messiah because Jesus is doing what John was expecting him to do. God's ways are not our ways which is a good thing. Jesus in eff...
Advent 2 - Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Friendship with God - December 08, 2019 18:00 - 23 minutesSermon for 2nd Sunday in Advent. In our first reading from Isaiah 11:1-10, the prophet names 7 gifts that the Holy Spirit will give to the Messiah. These same 7 gifts are also given to Christians at their baptism. These gifts help us in reading and interpreting the Scriptures which St. Paul ment...
Advent 1 - Coming of the Son of Man
Friendship with God - December 01, 2019 19:00 - 20 minutesAdvent 1 Sunday Sermon looks at what the writer of the Gospel of Matthew might have meant by the phrase 'the coming of the Son of Man.' The word apocalypse in the Bible means revelation where we think of it today as a catastrophic battle resulting in the end of the world. The last verse in Matth...
Last Pentecost - Who is Christ the King for You?
Friendship with God - November 24, 2019 19:00 - 11 minutesSermon on the Last Sunday after Pentecost. We celebrate Christ the King with Luke's Gospel of Jesus hanging on the cross where people taunt him to use his authority to serve himself. God chooses right action rather than easiest action. God chooses to win out of love rather than resort to violenc...
Pentecost 23 - Learn & Inwardly Digest Scripture
Friendship with God - November 17, 2019 19:00 - 24 minutesPentecost 23 Sunday Sermon on the Collect for Proper 28: Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you ...
All Saints Sunday - Can't Lose Identity as Image of God
Friendship with God - November 03, 2019 18:00 - 17 minutesSermon for Sunday After All Saints. We are all saints meaning we are set apart from the world. We are called to be in the world and not of the world. We live as People of Hope, People of the Resurrection. Definition of saint that I like is a "sinner trying to go straight." Our God is a God of un...
Pentecost 19 - Having Faith is Living Persistently
Friendship with God - October 20, 2019 18:00 - 18 minutesSunday Sermon for Pentecost 19 on the Parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge
Pentecost 9: God's Good Pleasure to Give Us
Friendship with God - August 11, 2019 18:00 - 19 minutesSt. Luke tells us that it is God's good pleasure to give us the Kingdom, which is where God dwells, God's Will is done, and the Grace of God is found. God does not give us a trouble free life, an easy way out, whatever we ask for that is not God's Will, or a life without responsibility or accoun...
Pentecost 8: Life is Gift -- Time is Precious
Friendship with God - August 04, 2019 16:00 - 21 minutesWhy doesn't Jesus settle a property dispute among brothers as a rabbi when rabbis commonly did this as teachers of the law? The most important thing is Life itself which is a gift from God. No amount of possessions can make life greater or gift life security. Rich Fool believed this world was it...
Pentecost 7: Learn from Jesus How to Pray
Friendship with God - July 28, 2019 16:00 - 25 minutesJesus teaches disciples the Lord's Prayer. The words we use in prayer affects what we believe about God. Saying it reminds us that God is an unconditionally loving parent who desires and works for our well-being. St. Luke's version has us ask for forgiveness of our sins from God because we forgi...
Pentecost 6: God Empowers us to Live our True Selves
Friendship with God - July 21, 2019 16:00 - 20 minutesMary sits at the feet of Jesus with the men rather than go work in the kitchen with Martha as the social custom of the day would have expected. Martha is frustrated that Mary isn't in the kitchen with her. Martha complains to Jesus rather than going to Mary herself. Jesus supports Mary's decisio...
Pentecost 5: Who is my Neighbor?
Friendship with God - July 14, 2019 16:00 - 22 minutesJewish law required Jews to be holy which required keeping separate from Gentiles, so could they expect that their neighbor would be only fellow Jews. Jesus dramatically expands this definition through the Parable of the Good Samaritan. The Samaritans were half-Jewish and, therefore, despised by...
Pentecost 4: Be a Sacrament of God's Love
Friendship with God - July 07, 2019 16:00 - 30 minutesSermon on Sunday 7/7/2019
Bishop's Annual Visit
Friendship with God - June 30, 2019 18:00 - 16 minutesSermon on the Bishop's annual visit for Confirmation and Reception.
Pentecost 2: How are You a Walking Gospel Story
Friendship with God - June 23, 2019 16:00 - 20 minutesSermons from St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Smyrna
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