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Everything at Risk

Proper 18 - Year C
September 8th, 2019

When Jesus lays out the cost of discipleship, it is in the starkest possible terms. Everything is on the line, including our most intimate and hallowed relationships, and perhaps even those things we so often take for granted: our sense of individual autonomy and control. The cost of discipleship means putting everything at risk for the sake of God’s love and so we can only expect one thing: that everything in our lives will be changed.

Duration: 22:47

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Wear Your Hard Hats

Proper 16 (Year C - Track 1)
August 25th, 2019

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

Jeremiah opens the door to the prophetic life, and Jesus breaks through the complacency that religious traditions too easily harbor. Get ready. The world is about to change.

Duration: 13:56

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Speaking to the Edge

Proper 14 (Year C - Track 1)
August 11th, 2019

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

In a world overwhelmed with lies and conspiracy theories, we are invited to remember that keeping faith has always been a marginal project. But it is here at the edge that God is prepared to build a new way and a new life for the world.

Duration: 18:32

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Turning from our Pacts with Death

Proper 13 (Year C)
August 4th, 2019

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

Jesus, along with the ancient prophets, knows our habit of making pacts with death. From our greed to our obsession with weapons we think will protect us, we end up in the age-old problem of making human sacrifice to gods that deal in death and violence. Our God is different, and our God is calling us to a radically different way of being.

Duration: 15:15

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Losing Everything

Proper 8 (Year C)
June 30th, 2019

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

In bracing words, Jesus shows us what the reign of God demands of us: not ten percent, not half, but everything.

Duration: 27:12

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Built on Hope

Proper 7 (Year C)
June 23rd, 2019

by The Rev. Gerald Caprio

In a busy age, the story of Elijah’s sojourn in the desert reminds us to value silence, where we can rediscover the virtue of hope, and the voice of the divine in our lives.

Duration: 20:59

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Breathing is Believing

The Day of Pentecost - Year C
June 9th, 2019

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

Like Philip, we might believe that seeing is enough. But the arrival of the Spirit at Pentecost, and the promise it fulfills, opens us to a whole new way of believing and engaging the divine life offered for the life of the world.

Duration: 19:45

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More to be Revealed

The Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year C
May 26th, 2019

by The Rev. Br. Richard Edward Helmer

The dreams of a beloved departed Rector, the ancient dreams of Paul, and the visions in Revelation all remind us that wherever our dreams are to be found: God's are inevitably greater.

Duration: 20:14

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