Sermons by Mike Eggleston

Logos. Become Flesh. Dwells Among Us

John 1:1-18 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. There was a man sent from God,…

God’s World and the Ten Words

We’ve read today in Exodus 20 one of the most world-shaking, world-changing texts ever written.  Exodus 19 and 20 tell us that the skies were thundering and lightening and Mt Sinai was shaking and smoking and the people were trembling in the distance when the LORD God spoke today’s words.  This is the only place in the Hebrew Bible where the text says that God spoke directly to the people of Israel without any intermediary, not through prophets,  priests nor…

 Meet the Prophet Jeremiah

Introduction:   An American vice president half a century ago taunted his detractors by calling them “Jeremiahs,” and also “nittering nabobs of negativism.”  That vice president later resigned in disgrace, while the words of Jeremiah live on forever.  Yet while today we may have more words from Jeremiah than from any other Biblical prophet, we perhaps rarely read them.  They’re not easy to hear.  Therefore, our guest preacher Mike invites us to take in all the span of Jeremiah’s long…

Humans Adapt, God Makes New

October 31 wears many hats, comes with many costumes.  Today is Halloween, also All Saint’s Eve.  Today on the Christian calendar this is Reformation Sunday or Ecumenical Sunday as St Ben’s celebrates it. St Ben’s also today celebrates the return of our pastor from Sabbatical, thanks be to God. Today is also the opening day of the UN’s Climate Change Conference. I’ll return to that soon.  Here’s one more hat today.  It’s also the fifth game of baseball’s World Series,…

“Wiser is Humbler” – Rev Mike Eggleston at St Benedict’s 

I Corinthians 1.18-25 Guidance from God can be found anywhere, because God is everywhere.  Me, I most often get insights from God either through nature or through scriptures and church tradition.  That’s good because those two, nature and torah, are the two forums of God which are praised in Psalm 19.  “The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the decrees of the Lord are sure, making wise the simple.”  But the start of this sermon comes from a…

Rolling with Change

“Rolling With Change” –Mike Eggleston at St Benedict’s Episcopal Church with                                                Amos 5.18-24, Wisdom of Solomon 6.12-16, I Thessalonians 4.13-18, Matthew 25.1-13 I chose to write this sermon last Monday, the day before election day. I did that because it was possible that I might have no coherent words to say after the election.  Like Job’s friends, it was possible that we could all be sitting seven days in the dust grieving in silence.  The other reason I wrote before…

Negativity Don’t Pull you Through

Romans 8:26-39 Matthew 13:31-33,44-52 Thanks to St Benedict’s for giving me two new life experiences today. This is my first time ever to preach wearing a mask. It’s also my first time to preach while being video-recorded live. Actually, I’ve done one more fairly new thing this week in preparation, which was to read a book, way outside my wheelhouse.  Most of what I read is ecology or theology or world fiction.  But the book I’ll lead from today was…
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