Staycation Bible School 2020
Vacation Bible School is often a highlight for many children during the long summer months. It's a time to learn about God's love in fun and exciting ways with crafts, songs…
Stuff the Bus – Supplies to Succeed
St. Philip's will once again be participating with the annual stuff the bus campaign with the Uvalde C.I.S.D. With so many families experiencing financial hardship due to Covid-19, UCISD is…
A Talk About Racism: New Reading and Discussion Group
I’m inviting you to join me for a difficult conversation - a conversation most of us have not had, and do not want to have. It’s about racism. Racism has been…
St. Philip’s Welcomes Deacon for Six Months
A little more than a year ago Mr. Arnoldo Romero came to St. Philip’s as our field education student. For the past three years Arnoldo has been studying in the…
Help Us Prepare For In-Person Worship
As you know, our plan for reopening in-person worship has been approved by the Diocese. The goal of this plan is to allow those who are ready to resume worshipping…
Resuming In-Person Worship
“I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord!’” (Psalm 122:1) I don’t know the context for the psalmist saying those words,…
The Faith of Baby Sea Turtles
O Lord our God, you have called us, the people of St. Philip’s, to be a public face of Christ. Open our hearts and minds to the uniqueness and holiness…
The Next Right Step: Extending Closure Through May 24
May 8, 2020 Dear Friends in Christ, For the sake of those who are our church family, and for the sake of our communities, I have decided to extend the…
What About Camp This Summer?
From the diocesan offices: Based on information the camps staff are receiving from local, state and the national government, the American Camp Association and CDC, Episcopal Church, Camp, and Conference…
Planning For A Phased Reopening of St. Philip’s
To the people of St. Philip’s: Grace and peace to you. As I mentioned in my sermon last week, the question of reopening is before us. That question exists at…
Read The Rev. Dr. Michael K. Marsh’s Sermons
AN EPISCOPAL PRIEST’S SERMONS, PRAYERS, AND REFLECTIONS ON LIFE, BECOMING HUMAN, AND DISCOVERING OUR DIVINITY
Interrupting the Silence
- “The Antidote To Exhaustion” – A Sermon On Mark 6:30-34, 53-56“Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while,” Jesus says in today’s gospel (Mark 6:30-34, 53-56). That sounds pretty good to me, how about you? What does that mean for you today? What do you need to let go of or get away from in order to rest? Where and […]
- Losing Our Head – A Sermon On Mark 6:14-29He lost his head. It happens. It happened in Jesus’ time and it’s happening in our time. It makes me wonder if we all come to moments in our lives when we lose our head. Maybe the question isn’t whether we will lose our head but what are we willing to lose our head for. […]
- What If You Already Are Enough? – A Sermon On Mark 6:1-13In the summer of 2000 Cyndy and I moved from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Sewanee, Tennessee, for me to attend seminary. A few months before we left Cyndy asked the wife of our priest about being a clergy spouse. “What’s it like being married to the priest?” she asked. Speaking about her husband, she said, […]
- Touching The Cloak – A Sermon On Mark 5:21-43A few days ago someone told me that several years ago he blocked a friend of his from contacting him. They had some very different opinions about life and the world and their relationship had become difficult. He said, “I regret that I did that. I don’t know why but I’ve recently started thinking about […]