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The Hometown Disadvantage – A Sermon On Mark 6:1-13
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 9, Year B – Mark 6:1-13 “Jesus came to his hometown.” He’s left that place where he healed Jairus’ daughter and the hemorrhaging women and has returned to Nazareth. It’s the place where he grew up and spent the first thirty years of his life. He’s come home. Some of Read more
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The Divine Touch – A Sermon On Mark 5:21-43
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 8, Year B – Mark 5:21-43 I’m usually the one that drives when my wife, Cyndy, and I go somewhere. If we’re going further than a few blocks I almost always roll up the sleeve of my right arm, lay my hand in her lap, and say, “Would you rub Read more
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God’s Seedy People – A Sermon On Mark 4:26-34
Third Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 6, Year B – Mark 4:26-34, the Parable of the Growing Seed. When you look at your life today, what’s different compared to your life a year ago, three, five, twenty years ago? I’m not asking about circumstances or events. I am asking about you. In what ways have you Read more
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Where Are You? – A Sermon On Genesis 3:8-15
About a week and a half ago I was sitting at the kitchen counter with my wife, Cyndy, supper was cooking, and we were talking. Somewhere in our conversation she asked, “Where are you?” She could see that I was sitting no more than three feet from here. But that’s not what she was asking Read more
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Our Advocates – A Pentecost Sermon On John 15:26-27; 16:4-15
In today’s gospel Jesus talks about the coming of the Advocate, the Spirit of Truth. What if the Advocate, in whatever ways she or he shows up, comes not to advocate to another on our behalf but to advocate to us on our own behalf? They are truth tellers for us. They call us more… Read more
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Working Out Our Life – A Sermon On John 17:6-19
In today’s gospel Jesus is praying. He’s not talking to the disciples and he’s not talking to us. He’s not teaching and he’s not giving instructions. He’s praying, and we’re listening in. And what a prayer it is. What do you hear in his prayer? I’m not just asking about what he prays for. I’m… Read more
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My name is Mike Marsh. I am a priest of the Episcopal Church. I retired from active parish ministry in 2025 after serving twenty-two years in The Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.
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