4/20/2008
Looking for AssuranceA sermon on the fifth Sunday of Easter.
The Rev. Susan Richardson
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4/3/2008
Woundedness Makes It RealA sermon on the second Sunday of Easter.
The Rev. Susan Richardson
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3/23/2008
The Resurrection is PersonalThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
The debates about the resurrection of Jesus the Christ, and what happened on that Easter morning thousands of years ago will never end. But our own stories of the resurrection about those whom we love and see no more will always live.
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3/21/2008
The Circumstances Aren't the Same Thing as the TruthThe Rev. Susan Richardson
Two meditations for Good Friday.more...
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3/16/2008
The most difficult lesson: Jesus didn't have to die; Jesus chose to dieA Palm Sunday sermon by the Rev. Timothy B. Safford
An Amish school girl teaches the answer to: Why did Jesus choose to die?
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2/24/2008
Drawing waterThe Rev. Timothy Safford
A sad woman meets Jesus at a well, and draws water that nurtures a new life.
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2/13/2008
Who owned Absalom Jones?The Rev. Timothy B. Safford
February 13 is the feast day of Absalom Jones, one of the nation's and our Church's heroic founding fathers. Our first black priest and founder of the first black Episcopal Church, he was born a slave, and achieved his freedom at age 38. But, from whom?
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2/10/2008
A Sermon for Lent IThe Rev. Susan Richardson
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12/30/2007
The Scaffolding of God Within UsThe Rev. Susan Richardson
A sermon on the Gospel of John, 1:1-18
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12/25/2007
Don't we all want to be Ebenezer Scrooge?The Rev. Timothy B. Safford
A sermon for Christmas, 2007
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12/9/2007
We All Need a John the BaptistThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
I think we all need a “John the Baptist” to call us to true repentance. I certainly had one.
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12/6/2007
God needs our lives, not our money.The Rev. Timothy B. Safford
We are here because 39 families dedicated
themselves in 1695 to opening up a salvation station at 2nd and Market, and in
case you haven’t noticed, the world needs just as much saving, and you
need just as much saving. We need to keep this mission going, for
Christ’s sake.
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11/25/2007
The Subversive ChristianThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
To be submissive to the Kingdom of God is to be subversive to the kingdoms of this world.
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10/26/2007
We're all trying to grow up.The Rev. Susan Richardson
The sermon from the Children's Sabbath service.
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10/7/2007
All You Need is All You HaveThe Rev. Susan Richardson
A biblical vision from the prophet Habakkuk.
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9/30/2007
Life that Really is LifeThe Rev. Timothy Safford
A timeless lesson from scripture: The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
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8/31/2007
A Sermon on VideoThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford preaching at All Saints Church, Pasadena, August 26, 2007
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8/26/2007
God Gets Really Happy When We Are OurselvesThe Rev. Susan Richardson
How we set ourselves free, through Christ, from the bonds of inauthenticity.
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7/15/2007
The Parable of the Good SamaritanAn audio recording of the sermon by the Rev. Timothy B. Safford
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7/1/2007
Freedom is as Freedom does: A Philadelphia StoryThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
A sermon examining the meaning of freedom through the rediscovered life of Oney Judge, one of the slaves kept by President Washington in Philadelphia.
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6/17/2007
A Sermon for June 17, 2007The Rev. K. Palmer Hartl
My faith teaches me about what I believe to be the inherent goodness in God’s creation. The inherent goodness of others.
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6/10/2007
Jesus intends to stop death itselfThe Rev. Timothy Safford
In the Gospel of Luke, 7:11-17, is the story of Jesus raising the dead son of the widow of Nain. This sermon imagines the effect of such a miracle on a tax collector that Jesus had called to be a disciple. It takes the form of a letter, written back to his brother.
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5/6/2007
The Radical Hospitality of GodThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
Will we tear down the barriers that surround our churches that keep those whom we label profane from even peeking into, or will we insulate ourselves with comfort, homogeneity and culture and just wait to see who might wander in on our terms?
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4/1/2007
Three Emails from the Prodigal SonThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
What follows are three sermons preached in Christ Church, Philadelphia, on Palm Sunday, Easter Sunday, and the Sunday after Easter. They are presented as three emails home from a child living in the city, near Christ Church. They are meant to evoke Jesus’ Parable of the Prodigal Son, which we studied at Christ Church in the Lenten season.
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2/4/2007
In the Deep WaterThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
So what is Jesus teaching us about our church today, and how might we resist that teaching like Simon Peter resists Jesus’ instructions?more...
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12/1/2006
The Second Coming and the Meaning of LifeThe Rev. Timothy Safford
What does it mean, “Christ will come again?”
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7/9/2006
We Shall OvercomeThe Rev. Timothy Safford
Most Americans, of every creed and culture, and probably most of the world where there has been a struggle for equality and human rights, know, by heart, the hymn: We Shall Overcome.
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7/2/2006
This is America! Pray in any language you wish!A sermon preached by the Rev. Timothy Safford
For America to find its future we must know the entirety of our past, and that
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5/21/2006
Love the One You SeeThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
To be like Christ, we are called to be a "second kind of artist."
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5/21/2006
Love the One You SeeThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
Jesus has revealed in his life, death
and resurrection that he is the sort of artist who transforms us, full of faults and imperfections, onto a canvas of glory and life
abundant.
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4/16/2006
Easter 2006: Back to the GardenThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
A parish bible study group shapes the Easter Sermon, with help from Joni Mitchell
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2/20/2006
Yet Another Sermon on the Radical Inclusivity of God
A sermon preached by the Rev. Timothy B. Safford
Jesus is sharing the word of freedom, release and inclusion in God’s
love and mercy while never releasing any of us from the reality that
sin imprisons us the most in cells that we construct for ourselves.
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12/24/2005
The God in Whom We BelieveThe Rev. Timothy Safford
A Christmas Sermon from 2005
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9/15/2005
After KatrinaThe Rev. Timothy Safford
Is God in the hurricane?
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9/30/2004
If we proclaim 'Christ is Risen,' why is Lazarus still laying at our gate?A sermon by the Rev. Timothy Safford
Too often, we think the parable of the rich man and Lazarus is about how the rich are cursed and the poor are blessed. That misses the point. The rich man should not make himself poor, but he should make Lazarus well.
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8/15/2004
Jesus and Family ValuesThe Rev. Timothy B. Safford
Jesus said, “Do you suppose I came to establish peace on the earth? No
indeed. I have come to bring dissension. From now on, a family of
five will be divided, three against two and two against three; father
against son and son against father, mother against daughter and
daughter against mother. . . .” Luke 12:51ff.
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7/3/2003
A Sermon for the 4th of July, 2003Preached by the Rev. Timothy Safford, RectorEach year, on or about the 4th of July, we gather in this church, and commemorate the founding of our nation. That has been the tradition here at Christ Church since 1785 when our denomination passed a resolution, that “the Fourth of July shall be observed by this Church forever as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God for the inestimable blessings of religious and civil liberty vouchsafed to the United States of America.”
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8/15/1999
Even Jesus Needed to be Reminded to be Inclusive A sermon preached by the Rev. Timothy Safford
In 2000, this sermon was awarded the Lawrence K. Mikkelsen Preaching Prize, for a sermon of distinction on the Gospel and Social Justice or the Gospel and Human Dignity.
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