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We are pleased to offer recordings of sermons delivered at Saint Francis. Sermons are generally posted within a few days after the Sunday they were preached. To hear the sermon, click on the date it was preached.
Filled with the Holy Spirit The Rev. William Munro Shand, III Welcome to the Family The Rev. William Munro Shand, III That We May Also Thither Ascend The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. The Difference The Resurrection Makes The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. That Where I Am, You May be Also The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. Do Not Let Your Heart Be Troubled The Rev. William Munro Shand, III How Dear to Me Is Your Dwelling At the Burial Office for John Mengers The Rev. William Munro Shand, III Jesus the Good Shepherd The Rev. William Munro Shand, III Down the Road from Emmaus The Rev. William Munro Shand, III Of Faith and Fiction The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. Easter, and Not Too Early The Rev. William Munro Shand, III Good Friday, The Seven Words from the Cross March 21, 2008 Introductory address The Rev. William Munro Shand, III March 21 2008 Father, forgive them . . . The Rev. William Munro Shand, III March 21, 2008 Today . . . with me in paradise. The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. March 21, 2008 Woman, behold your son. The Rev. William Munro Shand, III March 21, 2008 Why have you forsaken me? The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. March 21, 2008 I thirst. The Rev. William Munro Shand, III March 21, 2008 Into your hands The Rev. William Munro Shand, III March 21, 2008 It is finished. The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. Ms. Julie Keim, soprano, Saint Francis Choir Jesus Loved Them to the End March 20, 2008 Maundy Thursday The Rev. William Munro Shand, III The Passion of Our Lord March 16, 2008 Palm Sunday/Sunday of the Passion The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. That Our Hearts May Surely There Be Fixed The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. That's How I See Things The Rev. William Munro Shand, III What God Loves in the Incompetent You Never Can Tell The Rev. William Munro Shand, III He is Building a House For You February 10, 2008 The First Sunday in Lent The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. The Kind of Person God Can Use: Moses What Is In Your Hand? First Sentences and Jesus Christ Whose Voice Are You Listening To? Who Is This Jesus? The Word Made Flesh Eve, Mary, and The Obstetrics of Redemption In the Still of the Night The Kind of Person God Can Use: Saint Joseph Speaking Truth About Power More and More, Less and Less Our Sacred Past and Our Sacred Future Where Everything Ends Christ the King The Leaves are Rustling Job, Prayer, and Complaining to God The Encouragement of the Saints Whose Service is Perfect Freedom The Blessing of Struggling With God The God of Unfavorable Circumstances Zeal For Your House Has Consumed Me How Do I Love Thee? Two Prophets and Three Important Things In Sure and Certain Hope That Light Might Dawn Upon Them September 9, 2007 The Decision We Ask Students to Make September 2, 2007 Abraham, Sarah, and A Safe Place to Be Lose Not the Things Eternal The Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene Children Go Away Real Life Missionaries [Recordings of June 17 and 24 sermons are unavailable.] Elijah and the God of Compassion Bringing Joy to the Most High Pray Hard, Play Hard Pentecost, Baptism, and Lives Laid Down The Ministry We Share in Jesus Christ Paul, Barnabas and Encouraging One Another Belonging Before Believing Prometheus, Faust, And the Slain Lamb Disbelieving, And Keeping Contact with Believers Where Do You Look for Jesus Now? Good Friday, The Seven Words from the Cross April 6, 2007 Father, forgive them . . . The Rev., Dr. Ruth Correll April 6, 2007 Today . . . with me in paradise. April 6, 2007 Woman, behold thy son. April 6, 2007 My God, why hast thou forsaken me? April 6, 2007 Into thy hands, I commend my spirit. April 6, 2007 I thirst. April 6, 2007 It is finished. Is This the Kind of God You Believe In? Remembering God in Maryland History March 18, 2007 The Rev. Phillip Channing Ellsworth, Jr. ![]() ![]()
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"For the sake, as he sees it, of the ones he preaches to, the preacher is apt to preach the Gospel with the high magic taken out, the The wild and joyful promise of the Gospel is reduced to promises more easily kept. The peace that passeth all understanding is reduced The joke of it is that often it is the preacher who as steward of the wildest mystery of them all is the one who hangs back, prudent, cautious, hopelessly mature and wise Frederick Buechner,
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And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil/By telling truth: tell the truth and shame the devil./If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,/And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence./O, while you live, tell the truth and shame the devil! —William Shakespeare Henry IV. Part I, 1597 ![]()
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