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Sermons At Trinity 2009
Want to go back and revisit a sermon you heard in previous years? Want to check and see if Rev. Meg is preaching the same sermons year after year? You've come to the right place. Just scroll down through the list and you can peruse all of 2009's sermons. Unless otherwise noted, all sermons are by Trinity's Rector, The Rev. Meg Decker.
December 27th First Sunday after Christmas Day
Singing the joy of Christmas: a selection of parishioners' favorite carols (no audio)
December 24th Christmas Eve Mass
December 20th 4 Advent
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: We know who makes the rules. We know what the rules are. How do we proclaim that truth?
December 13th 3 Advent
December 6th 2 Advent
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: God's message is eternal and we are a part of it. Salvation is calling us to be who we were meant to be.
December 1st World AIDS Day Service
November 29th 1 Advent
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: If we miss the context of scripture, we miss its point
November 22nd Last Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: You have to know the code to understand what the words in the gospel mean
November 15th 24 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: The world is going to end in three years: the reality of what that means to us.
November 8th 23 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: NTW - Not of this world (Patience: audio weak for first minute.)
November 1st 22 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker & Bibleman: Bibleman saves another sermon. Or does he?
October 25th 21 Pentecost
The Sermon - Celena Lopes: The celebration of Trinity continues through stewardship.
October 18th 20 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: The truth revealed: sermons have an agenda.
October 11th 19 Pentecost
October 4th 18 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rt. Rev. James Mathes: Reconciliation requires us to change and the holiness of reconciliation is never completely finished.
September 27th 17 Pentecost
September 20th 16 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: God has given us a way to live: wisdom. But then He asks us to do differently.
September 13th 15 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Why? Why would we choose to be part of this plan? Why?
September 6th 14 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: What is God doing? Is He rewarding us for being good and punishing us when we are not good?
August 30th 13 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Looking at the Gospel through Twitter: What am I doing? What is God doing?
August 23rd 12 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: The Gospel is offensive. What is Jesus' real offense?
August 16th 11 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Will Fisher: Before we can understand the spiritual, we have to love it first.
August 9th 10 Pentecost
August 2nd 9 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Don't settle for the easy way; we must be who we are meant to be.
July 26th 8 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: God invites us to share, but do we have enough to share?
July 19th 7 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Will Fisher: Just like competitive cyclists, we need to recover in order to be able to meet grueling challenges. We need sabbath time.
July 12th 6 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: What is the "Good News" about the beheading of John the Baptist? We are allowed to complain.
July 5th 5 Pentecost
The Sermon - Seminarian Andy Shamel: The gospel is not about what Jesus did.
June 28th 4 Pentecost
June 21st 3 Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Hearing some Bible stories now just isn't quite the same as when we heard them as children.
June 14th 2 Pentecost
June 7th Trinity Sunday
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Trinity Sunday - understanding three in one and one in three.
May 31st Pentecost
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: We have magic, holy words; things will happen when we use them.
May 24th 7 Easter
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: If you were listening to Jesus' final lecture, would you have any questions?
May 17th 6 Easter
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: The Good News: we did not choose Jesus, he chose us
May 10th 5 Easter
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Having fun in church
April 26th 3 Easter
April 19th 2 Easter
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Easter isn't an achievement. It is a joke!
April 12th Easter Sunday
April 11th Great Vigil of Easter
April 10th Good Friday
April 9th Maundy Thursday
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: What was the Last Supper all about?
April 5th Palm Sunday
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Are we not just as divided as those who preach Armageddon?
March 29th 5 Lent
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Jesus described his glorification. What are we to do with it?
March 22nd 4 Lent
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Even God's people can long for the good ol' days!
March 15th 3 Lent
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: By what sign did Jesus have the authority to do what he did?
March 8th 2 Lent
March 1st 1 Lent
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: There are times when it's better not to say anything at all.
February 25th Ash Wednesday
February 22nd Last Epiphany
February 15th 6 Epiphany
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: The Messianic secret. Do we really want to talk about God to our nonchurch-going friends?
February 8th 5 Epiphany
The Sermon - The Rev. Meg Decker: Jesus healed many during his ministry. What did all of this healing mean? After all, he did not heal them for all eternity.
February 1st 4 Epiphany
The Sermon - The Rev. Richard Harms: We pray for the peace of God, but the peace of God isn't all that peaceful.
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