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Michael’s Death

“Michael’s Death”[1] Like so many of you who have shared your experiences of Michael’s death with me, my emotions in these last days have run the gamut.  I have felt a deep, deep sorrow for my loss, and for ou...

Naming God’s Story through 150 Years of Brown Memorial

Gabriel mutes Zechariah for doubting God’s promises (Luke 1:20).  And you might think that this sentence to silence is tough for a priest, what with all the jokes about how much preachers like to hear themselves speak.  But lately I’ve been ...

Practice A Holy Lent – Ash Wednesday

All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn your face toward the wind and be scattered to the four corners or swept away by the smallest breath as insubstantial— did you not know wha...

Dismantling Pharaoh’s Systems, One Brick at a Time

Please note, footnotes do not transfer into the HTML versions of our sermons.  Please refer to the PDF copies below for all citations. Because of policies of Pharaoh, Hebrew boys were more at risk than their Egyptian counterparts.  Like every...

The Humor of our Situation

Please note:  We discovered recently that footnotes do not carry over from our some of of our word processors into the HTML (text) publications of our sermons.  Until we rectify this situation, please refer to all pdf copies of sermon for full a...

Power of the Pulpit

The morning of our current President’s inauguration, the chosen preacher for the day – a Baptist pastor of a church in Dallas, stepped into the pulpit of St. John’s Episcopal Church and opened the Bible to the book of Nehemiah. The chosen text ...

Shake it Off

Last week, our series on Courage and Connection began. For the next month, Andrew and I will preach on the gifts and challenges of vulnerability and the courage it takes to live with our whole selves. September 9th Andrew spoke about what it means to live...

Living On

When you visit the University of Central America in San Salvador they take you first to a small museum commemorating the martyrs killed during the war.  There is the blood stained robe that one martyr was wearing when the military dragged him out of ...

Perplexed at Pentecost

Peter’s such a know-it-all.  He’s got an answer for everything especially the questions the crowd asks today.  “How is it that we hear in our own native language?” “What does this mean?”  These are good questions considering wha...

Stairwell Gospel

John 20:17-29 Jesus said to her, “Do not hold onto me, because I have not yet ascended. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene went and a...

She Showed Up

Isaiah 61:10-62:3 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my whole being shall exult in my God; for she has clothed me with the garments of salvation, she has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a g...

Rev. Nibs Stroupe to Preach Nov. 26

We are blessed to have Nibs Stroupe (father of Brown Memorial member Susan Stroupe) scheduled to preach with us on Nov. 26, 2017.     Rev. Stroupe retired in 2017 after almost 34 years as pastor of READ MORE >

“Why I give to Brown Memorial.”

"Why do you attend Brown Memorial." This question is often asked during group and committee meetings to help build relationships and common understanding among the members of Brown Memorial.    Another question rarely asked, but equally as...

Preaching Series Explores Reformation Themes

October 31 marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church, the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. In recognition of the anniversary, Brown Memorial is featuring a four-part preaching series, O...

Reformation: The Word Did Everything

A few years ago, when I was gearing up for my first guest sermon, one of my former professors told me I should “preach like I won’t be invited back” - which was fine advice as I drove to a small congregation in Arkansas. Once they realized...

In The Garden

When he was a young man, Tony Campolo hated Sunday evening church. He could handle Sunday mornings – they were generally well put-together. Prime-time. The sermons had a structure you could follow – three points and a poem - and you could count on the...

The 12 Steps: Honest Healing

[For six weeks, we are working through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, pairing the Steps with scripture and seeking wisdom for all people. This week’s sermon is the third in the series, and deals with Steps 1 and 2.] Step 5: Admitted to God...

Sermon Series: Faith and The 12 Steps

Andrew Foster Connors and Tim Hughes Williams are beginning a new sermon series on Pentecost Sunday, running Sunday June 4 through Sunday July 9, based on "Faith and The 12 Steps."   Andrew and Tim will preach that one needn't be addicted ...