Sermons from St. John’s Episcopal Church

Youth Sunday. Deacon Katie Gerber. April 14, 2024, 11:00 am Eucharist.

Deacon Katie Gerber preaches on Luke 24:36b-48 at the annual Youth Sunday service.

Dealing with Doubt. Fr. Oliver Butler. April 7, 2024

The Second Sunday of Easter. John 20:19-31 In every age, Jesus's followers have had to deal with doubt and we see this in Thomas's encounter with the Risen Lord.

How do you know? Fr. David Houk. Easter Day: March 31, 2024

Mark 16:1-8. March 28, 2024. We all want to believe that God is love, that our sins our forgiven, that there is life after death. But how do you know?

The curtain. Fr. David Houk. March 24, 2024.

Mark 14:1-15:47. Why did Jesus die? There are lots of people to blame in St. Mark’s Gospel, but there is a divine purpose that is the point of it all.

The cure for snakebite. Fr. David Houk. March 10, 2024.

 John 3:14-21  What if the very thing that is killing you is also the thing that will heal you?

Angry? Fr. Oliver Butler. March 3, 2023

On the Third Sunday in Lent, the Gospel appointed takes us to the temple where Jesus drives out the money changers. Fr. Butler helps us understand the difference between righteous anger and the anger we need to give over to God.

Losing your so-called life. Fr. David Houk. February 25, 2024

The Second in Lent: Mark 8:31-38. All of us have to go through some kind of death in order to get to a new kind of life.

The Stupor of Comfort. Deacon Louis Harris. February 18, 2024.

Mark 1:9-15. The season of Lent is upon us. In this sermon, Deacon Harris draws out its themes of discipline and self-denial in relation to human longing for comfort and satisfaction, through the text of St Mark's Gospel. Christ is in the wilderness, but why would we want to join Him there?

Gaguing our spiritual health. Fr. Oliver Butler. Ash Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Fr. Butler calls us all to look at our lives and make the most of the invitation to a holy Lent.

Change.Fr. David Houk. February 11, 2024.

The Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-9) is a point of change in Mark's Gospel, and we hear it just as everything is about to change in our church's life during Lent. The question is, are we willing to change as well?