St. Francis Episcopal Church

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 17, 2013, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is John 12:1-8. Text preached on is Philippians 3:4-14. Quote taken from C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity."

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on March 10, 2013 by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Luke 15. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on the Third Sunday of Lent, February 17, 2013, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Luke 13:1-9. Text preached on is 1 Corinthians 10:1-13. Quote taken from Keller,"The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism."

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on February 24 2013 by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Luke 13. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on the First Sunday of Lent, February 17, 2013, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Luke 4:1-13.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on Ash Wednesday, February 13 2013, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Matthew 6. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on February 10 2013 by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Luke 9. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany, February 04, 2013, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Luke 4:21-30.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on January 27 2013 by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges. Poem referenced is "One Today" by Richard Blanco. Gospel is Luke 4.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on the Second Sunday of Epiphany, January 20, 2013, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is John 2:1-11. Reference is to Martin Luther King Jr.'s sermon,“Transformed Non-Conformist,” 1954. Also, see Nietzsche,F. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (Thomas Common, trans ), p 123 “Ye know only the sparks of the spirit but ye do not see the anvil which it is, and the cruelty of its hammer!” See also Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1892), ch. VII.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on the Baptism of our Lord, January 13 2013, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Luke 3.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Luke 2:1-20. Reference to Martin Luther taken from:“Prefaces to the Old Testament,” Luther’s Works, ed. J. Pelikan and H. Lehmann, 55 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1955-76) 35.236. A similar saying also appears in LW 35.122.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on the Fourth Sunday in Advent, December 23, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Luke 1:39-45(46-55). References to Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on December 30 2012 by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is John 1:1-18. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Children's story told at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on Christmas Eve 2012, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. This story is an outline of the history of St. Francis Church. Intellectual property of Penelope M. Bridges.

Sermon preached on the first Third of Advent, December 16, 2012, at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, by the Rev. Bill Myers. Gospel is Luke 3:7-18. Sermon is intellectual property of The Rev. Bill Myers.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on , December 10, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Luke 3:16. The book cited is: "Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. Ch. 11. “Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you.”

Sermon preached on the first Sunday of Advent, December 2, 2012, at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Luke 21:25-36. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2012, by Dr. Lynda Davis. Gospel is Matthew 6:25-33. Sermon is intellectual property of Lynda Davis.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on Christ the King Sunday, November 25, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is John 18:33-37.