Sermons by Dr. Elizabeth Windsor

The neighborhood of saints

All Saints Sunday celebrates both “upper” and “lowercase” saints. We need a neighborhood of saints to practice love, justice, and mercy together so that we can love God, our neighbors and our selves here at St. Matthews’s and in neighborhoods far and near.

The Hands of Love

We hold each other’s hands as we pray – and anchored to the Spirit in each other, we reach our hands out into the world. It is “the hands of love” that form a chain reaction of being ministered to and ministering to others. This is the rhythm of Christian practice.

The Time to Exhale

The days between the Ascension of Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost invite the disciples -and us- to think about our changing relationship with God. How do we breathe out our losses and make room for the life-giving Spirit that will blow us in new directions?

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