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A Vision For The Future – A Sermon On Isaiah 65:17-25
I suspect we’ve all had times in our lives when something happens and we know that that event is asking something of us. We know something needs to be done in response to what has happened. We want to do something, but we just don’t know what to do. For the last several months I… Read more
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Are You Getting Warmer Or Colder? – An All Saints Sermon On Luke 6:20-31
Blessings and woes. “Blessed are you.” “Woe to you.” What do you make of all that? I think it’s easy to hear the blessings and woes in today’s gospel (Luke 6:20-31) as rewards and punishments or as a categorization of saints and sinners, but I also think that would be a mistake and a misunderstanding… Read more
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A Prayer for the 2022 Mid-Term Elections
Gracious and loving God, you have bound us together in a common life. We commend ourselves, our communities, states, and country to your merciful care, that, being guided by your providence, we may dwell secure in your peace. Help us, in the midst of our struggles for justice and truth, to confront one another without… Read more
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What About The Unjust Widow? – A Sermon On Luke 18:1-8
We know today’s gospel (Luke 18:1-8) as the parable of the unjust judge. One implication of that title is that the widow is just. Maybe she is. But I’m not convinced. That makes the story too clean and easy. So I struggle with this story. I think it is a difficult and challenging story because… Read more
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Living In Exile – A Sermon On Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7
In today’s reading from the Old Testament (Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7) the people of Israel are living in exile. It’s not what they wanted. They didn’t choose to go. They were forcibly sent from Jerusalem to Babylon and their lives will be forever changed. Sometimes life gives us what we neither wanted nor chose. I suspect… Read more
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Lazarus Is Knocking – A Sermon On Luke 16:19-31
Exclusive communities, membership dues, railroad tracks, border walls, the other side of town; it seems there is always a gate between the rich and the poor. And so it is in today’s gospel (Luke 16:19-31). On one side of the gate a rich man lives in splendor. He’s well dressed in expensive clothes. He sits… 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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