Sermons That Work

For more than 20 years, Sermons That Work, a ministry of the Episcopal Church’s Office of Communication, has provided free sermons, Bible studies, bulletin inserts, and other resources that speak to congregations across the Church. Our writers and readers come from numerous and varied backgrounds, and the resources we provide are used in small house churches, sprawling cathedrals, and everything between.

Christianity
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Pentecost 15 (A): Forgiveness - September 13, 2020
12 min
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Pentecost 14 (A): The Ocean and Beloved Communi...
8 min
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Pentecost 13 (A): Unquenchable Love - August 30...
9 min
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Pentecost 12 (A): Totality - August 23, 2020
9 min
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Pentecost 11 (A): What's Wrong? - August 16, 2020
9 min
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Pentecost 10 (A): Why Did You Doubt? - August 9...
8 min
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Transfiguration: Clinging to the Light - August...
10 min
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Pentecost 9 (A): Which Party? - August 2, 2020
7 min
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Pentecost 8 (A): Perseverance and the Pearl - J...
10 min
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Pentecost 7 (A): Inheritance - July 19, 2020
9 min
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Pentecost 6 (A): Seeds and Soil - July 12, 2020
11 min
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Pentecost 5 (A): Come to Me - July 5, 2020
19 min
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Pentecost 4 (A): Even One Cup - June 28, 2020
"How long, O Lord? Although the psalmist’s plea seems to be echoing across our nation and indeed across our world, Jesus is still calling us to compassionate welcome."
10 min
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Pentecost 3 (A): Sent - June 21, 2020
"Christian identity and character formation are lifelong processes."
10 min
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Pentecost 2 (A): Twelve - June 14, 2020
"Twelve. Twelve is one of those rare numbers to which people have for centuries attributed special significance."
11 min
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Trinity Sunday (A): The Pandemic and the Holy T...
"The Trinity is not a mystery in the sense of a puzzle we can't solve; the Trinity is a mystery in that we see the truth of it, but there is more than we can fully comprehend."
10 min
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Day of Pentecost (A): Heaven - May 31, 2020
"What do you believe about heaven?"
9 min
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Easter 7 (A): Split Screen - May 24, 2020
"In every musical – and in many movies – there seems to be a moment when two or more main characters, are separated..."
7 min
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Ascension Day (A): Truth-Telling - May 21, 2020
"Six Sundays have passed now since we heard that Jesus was raised from the dead..."
8 min
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Easter 6 (A): Blessed Be God - May 17, 2020
"How great it is that our God – the same God who took on flesh and lived among us, who was betrayed, tortured, killed, and buried – rose again and still, in spite of our continuing sinfulness, loves us."
7 min
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Easter 5 (A): Rock Solid When Everything Feels ...
"It all feels so up in the air..."
11 min
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Easter 4 (A): The Gate - May 3, 2020
"Even though we are in the season of Easter, our lives may still feel like one long Lenten discipline of social distancing and fighting illness..."
10 min
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Easter 3 (A): Breaking - April 26, 2020
"We find ourselves in the middle of this Easter season, now on the third Sunday after the Resurrection, and we have a beautiful narrative of how new life breaks into the midst of shattered hopes."
8 min
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A Special Message from Sermons That Work: Homes...
Homesickness, by the Rev. Dr. Amy Richter
18 min
350
Easter 2 (A): Faith: More than a Five Letter Wo...
"We pray today that we will shake away the doubt that traps us in a world of fear and celebrate that we have a great high priest who has risen from the dead to give us steadfast hope and eternal salvation."
8 min