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    Feb 21, 2010

    Lent 1 Year C

    Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner

    This is a piece of the desert. It is not the whole desert, just a piece. So many important things happened to the people of God in the desert that we need to have a piece of it with us, so we can hear the stories. The desert is a dangerous place. ...
      Feb 17, 2010

      Ash Wednesday

      Speaker: The Rev. Timothy Patterson

      In the ancient wisdom of the church, every Ash Wednesday, to begin the season of Lent, we touch each other with the ashes of our own mortality... It is in the brutal honesty of this ritual, in the bracing truthfulness, the earthy realism of this ...
        Feb 14, 2010

        Last Epiphany Year C

        Speaker: The Rev. Virginia Herring

        Several years ago, a guest priest came to Holy Trinity to lead a wellness event on this very same date, the Last Sunday after the Epiphany. He had also agreed to preach at all our Sunday services. So, early Sunday morning, I joined him in the ...
          Feb 7, 2010

          Epiphany 5C

          Speaker: The Rev. Timothy Patterson

          This gospel reading, well, you actually can read it in a literal, straightforward manner as a fishing story. And it is that. Indeed, it is a great and memorable fishing story; and, as is often the case with that genre, almost too much to believe. ...