-
What Has Laid Claim To Your Life? – An Advent Sermon On Luke 3:1-6
What do you see when you look at your past? What are the feelings and thoughts?Regardless of how we view our past, regardless of what did or not happen back then, to the degree we are enmeshed, entangled, or enslaved to our past, “we can expect the future to look like the past” (Caputo, The… Read more
-
The Unforeseeable Future – An Advent Sermon On Luke 21:25-36
In today’s gospel Jesus speaks of the “‘Son of Man coming in a cloud’ with power and great glory.” I think that’s a metaphor for the future. I’ve recently begun to think of Advent as the coming of our future, and a time when we prepare, as best we can, if we can, for that… Read more
-
Shh, Be Quiet, It’s Advent.
A new liturgical year begins this coming Sunday, December 2, 2018, with the First Sunday of Advent. The Season of Advent consists of the four Sundays before Christmas. The liturgical color for Advent is purple or sometimes blue. We will begin a new liturgical cycle of seasons, feasts and fasts, and scripture lessons. This year Read more
-
Opening Gates – A Funeral Sermon For A Nonbeliever
What God creates, God loves; and what God loves, God loves everlastingly. I hope that you will hold on to those words. They are the thread that runs through everything we will do here today. They are the thread that runs through everything I will say to you. They are the thread that ran through Read more
-
Unbinding Abundance – An All Saints’ Sermon On John 11:32-44
All Saints Sunday – John 11:32-44 “Where have you laid him?” Jesus asked them. “Lord, come and see.” The thing that strikes me most about Mary and Martha in today’s gospel (John 11:32-44) is their loneliness. They’re lonely. They’re lonely for their brother. They’re lonely for Jesus. They’re lonely for the life they used to Read more
-
A Prayer For Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Each year October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by Read more
Follow Interrupting the Silence
Fr. Mike
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.
Spiritual Direction
I am available for spiritual direction online and in person. I have been doing spiritual direction for nearly twenty years. It is one of the aspects of my priesthood about which I am most passionate.
Copyright
The content of Interrupting the Silence is copyrighted as follows:
© Michael K. Marsh and Interrupting the Silence, 2009-2025, all rights reserved. Please contact me for permission to use content from Interrupting the Silence.
Support
If you have found the material on Interrupting the Silence meaningful in your life or helpful in your ministry I hope you will consider a financial donation.
Copyright
Interrupting the Silence is copyrighted as follows:
© Michael K. Marsh and Interrupting the Silence,
2009-2025, all rights reserved.
Interrupting the Silence 