Sermon Epiphany 1 2020

I am going to discuss the past few months at St. Michael’s as compared to what we hear today concerning God and Faith by many who say “faith is about “God and Me” The secular world says “who needs the church – it about my friend – you know – Jesus and me; however, we…

Today’s readings should cause all of us to stop and ponder. Jesus “wept” over what the Jews had done to Jerusalem and predicted the Temple’s destruction which would come some 40 years later. The Jewish people had been freed from their captivity of sin within Egypt and then led to the Promised Land. And yet…

  The Third Sunday after the Epiphany Today, Epiphany III, ends our short Epiphany season this year. Two weeks ago we heard the story of Jesus, as a young man, being in the midst of the elders at the Temple, listening and asking questions, and they were amazed at his knowledge. Last week, we heard…