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When You’re Down To Five Loaves And Two Fish – A Sermon On Matthew 14:13-21
Five loaves and two fish. I know what that’s like and I’ll bet you do too. The day of my divorce was a five loaves and two fish kind of day. And so was the day my older son died and the years that followed. A couple of weeks ago one of my best friends… Read more
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Pulling Weeds, Reaping Life – A Sermon On Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
What feeds and sustains your life today? What relationships, values, and beliefs nourish your life? Who are the people that enrich and enliven your life? What are you needing and asking for when you pray that God will give you your daily bread? In whatever ways you might have answered those questions you’ve described the… Read more
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Sowing Seeds Of New Life – A Sermon On Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
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
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Racism – An Online Reading And Discussion Group
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
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Prophetic Tracks – A Sermon On Matthew 10:40-42
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
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Jesus’ Line In The Sand – A Sermon On Matthew 10:24-39
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
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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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