Category Archives: Matthew Kieswetter

Sunday, August 8, 2021 Ephesians 4:25 – 5:2 John 6:35, 41-51 If you do some digging into early Christian history, I think you’ll find that the first few hundred years of the Church are often most exciting to learn about. It was a dangerous time (illegal to be Christian), but fruitful — maybe because of […]

Sunday, August 1, 2021: Ephesians 4:1-16 John 6:24-35 Last week we heard that after Jesus fed the crowd “they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.” It might seem odd that Jesus doesn’t want to take advantage of of the situation, […]

Sunday, July 25, 2021: Ephesians 3:14-21 John 6:1-21 For a month — with a one-Sunday interruption due to St. Mary’s feast day — we make our way through a section of the Gospel of John. And I hope you like carbs, because it’s what I’ve heard some people call “the weeks of bread.” Now, there’s […]

Sunday, June 13, 2021: Mark 4:26-34 How does God act in our world? Like, really. Do you have any thoughts on this? My personality is such that I’m usually pretty comfortable with ambiguity — shades of grey — so I often don’t move too deeply into some questions like this, or if I do, I’m […]

Sunday, June 6, 2021 Mark 3:20-35 In an unscripted sermon Fr. Kieswetter spoke about the disturbing aspects of today’s gospel reading. Have you ever worried if you’ve inadvertently committed THE unforgivable sin? (So Jesus can forgive the people crucifying him, and yet there’s some other worse sin out there that is a bridge too far […]