Interrupting the Silence

The Table and Remembrance – A Sermon for Maundy Thursday

April 14, 2017

Think about a time when you gathered around the table in remembrance. Where was the table? Who was there? Who wasn’t there? What was the conversation about? What was your remembrance as you gathered around that table? Read more
Will to Power or Will to Life? – A Palm Sunday Sermon on Matthew 21:1-11

April 9, 2017

Have you ever thought of Jesus’ Palm Sunday procession as a protest march? What if that’s what it really is? What if it is a resistance movement? What if it is highlighting the struggle that takes place in every human heart – the will to power or the will to life? I’ve come to believe… Read more
Disappointment and Unanswered Questions – A Sermon on John 11:1-45 and Ezekiel 37:1-14

April 2, 2017

What is the valley that cuts through center of your life? What questions did you ask when the Lazarus of your life died? What questions are you asking today? Read more
Who Has Nourished Your Life?

March 31, 2017

6:52. “The Jews disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’” The short answer to the dispute we read about in our lesson from John is love. The longer answer fills thousands of books. The longer answer rationalizes and divides churches and separates Christians from each other. The longer Read more
Meeting Our Daily Nutritional Requirements

March 30, 2017

John 6:49, 51a. “Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died…. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever.” Manna and living bread are both necessary, because they feed two different aspects of our lives, together offering a full range of necessary Read more
Life on the Potter’s Wheel

March 29, 2017

Jeremiah 18:6. “’Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just at this potter has done?’ says the LORD. ‘Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.’” Who I am today is not who I was a year ago, five years ago, or fifty years ago. I 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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