St. Francis Episcopal Church

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on November 18, 2012, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Mark 13. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on November 11, 2012, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Mark 12:38-44. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on All Saints Day, November 4, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is John 11:32-44. Epistle is Revelation 21:1-6a. Story about holy man is a reworked Buddhist tale. The quotation from the Rev. Jeremy Taylor is taken from his “Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life” in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on October 28 2012 by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Mark 10:46-52. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on October 21, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Mark 10:35-45. This sermon is an adaptation of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Drum Major Instinct" which he gave on 4 February 1968. King's sermon was an adaptation of the 1952 homily "Drum-Major Instincts" by J. Wallace Hamilton.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on October 14, 2012, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Mark 10:17-31. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls Virginia, on October 7, 2012, celebrating the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Matthew 11:25-30; sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on September 30, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Mark 9:38-50. Sermon is intellectual property of Benson Shelton.

sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on September 23 2012 by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Mark 9:30-37; sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on September 16, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Mark. Sermon is intellectual property of Benson Shelton. Series Referenced: Fall 2012: Glee Season 4 Premiere “The New Rachel”.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia on September 9, 2012, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Mark 7. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on September 2, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Mark. Sermon is intellectual property of Benson Shelton. Series Referenced: National Geographic's "American Gypsies."

Sermon preached on August 26 2012 at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is the last portion of John chapter 6. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on August 19, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is John 6:51-58. Sermon is intellectual property of Benson Shelton. Story taken from Slavoj Zizek lecture “The Ignorance of Chicken: Who Believes What Today?”

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on August 12, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is John 6:35,41-51. Sermon is intellectual property of Benson Shelton. Quote taken from D. Myers, "The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty."

Sermon preached on August 5, 2012, at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, by the Reverend Penelope Bridges, with help from "voices" Joe Reynolds, Lyn Beer, Graham Marsden, and Sharon Nachman. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on July 29 2012 by Lawrence Duffee, lay missionary of the Diocese of Virginia to South Sudan. Gospel is John 6. Sermon is intellectual property of Lawrence Duffee.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on July 15, 2012, by the Reverend Penelope Bridges. Scripture readings are 2 Samuel 6 (David dancing before the Ark), and Mark 6:14-29 (Salome dances for Herod). Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on July 8, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is Mark 6:1-13. Sermon is intellectual property of Benson Shelton. Story taken from Thomas Long's "Preaching from Memory to Hope", pp. 19-20.

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on June 24, 2012, by the Rev. Penelope Bridges. Gospel is Mark 4:35-41. Sermon is intellectual property of Penelope Bridges.