Interrupting the Silence

Sowing Seeds Of New Life – A Sermon On Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

July 12, 2020

When you look at you life today, when you look at the lives of the people you care about most, when you look at everything that is happening in our country, what are your deepest hopes? Whatever you just named, that hope carries the seeds of your life. And it’s asking something of you. It’s… Read more
Racism – An Online Reading And Discussion Group

July 8, 2020

This class has been completed and is no longer being offered. — I will be offering a reading and discussion group about racism for the parish I serve, though it is not limited to parishioners. I think this is some of the most important work we can do right now, and I hope you will join… Read more
Prophetic Tracks – A Sermon On Matthew 10:40-42

June 28, 2020

I wonder if we have become so accustomed to the way things are that we can no longer see the needs of others, the injustices done to them, or their pain. I wonder if that’s why in the last several weeks so many of us are in shock over what is happening in our country… Read more
Jesus’ Line In The Sand – A Sermon On Matthew 10:24-39

June 21, 2020

Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” I don’t remember struggling more with the gospel than I have in the last few weeks. And I don’t mean struggling to interpret the truth of the gospel. I mean struggling with… Read more
“I Can’t Breathe” – A Trinity Sunday Sermon On Matthew 28:16-20

June 7, 2020

I don’t know and never will know what it’s like to have the knee of a police officer against my neck, but I still can’t breathe. I want to be able to breathe again. I want you to be able to breathe. I want the George Floyds of the world to be able to breathe.… Read more
Letting Peace Hold Our Wounds – A Pentecost Sermon On John 20:19-23

May 31, 2020

America is in a hard place these days, and we have been for quite a while. Over the last few months of the coronavirus many have said that we’re all in this together. Yes, but we’re not all together in this. We are not “all together in one place” on this day of Pentecost. Our… 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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