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Sermon videos and transcripts from the pulpit of St. Edward’s Episcopal Church in Mount Dora, FL.

Pentecost 9 – Sermon

Collect and Reading for Pentecost 9 Proper 14 Year C                                                                              8/7/2022 Genesis 15:1-6; Psalm 33:12-22; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40 Rev. Mark A. Lafler One of the popular ideas floating around...

Pentecost 8 – Sermon

Proper 13 Year C 7/31/2022 Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14, 2:18-23; Psalm 49:1-11; Colossians 3:1-11; Luke 12:13-21 Rev. Mark A. Lafler During World War II, Winston Churchill was forced to make a painful choice. The British secret service had broken the Nazi code. They...

Pentecost 4 – Sermon

Proper 9 Year C 7/3/2022 Isaiah 66:10-14; Psalm 66:1-8; Galatians 6:1-16; Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Rev. Mark A. Lafler Last week, we heard the text from St. Paul to the Galatians on the fruit of the Spirit. Can you name all 9 fruit of the Spirit? Love, joy, peace,...

Pentecost 3 – Sermon

Proper 8 Year C 6/26/2022 1 Kings 19:15-16,19-21; Psalm 16; Galatians 5:1, 13-25; Luke 9:51-62 Rev. Mark A. Lafler Last week, Deacon Bob in his sermon, gave a background to the letter of St. Paul to the Galatians. Galatians is believed to be Paul’s earliest letter......

Trinity Sunday – Sermon

https://soundcloud.com/user-276951818/trinity-sunday-2022?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Trinity Sunday Year C Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15 Rev. Mark A. Lafler Happy Trinity Sunday! This is a...

Easter 6 – Sermon

6 Easter Year C 5/22/2022 Acts 16:9-15; Psalm 67; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 5:1-9 Rev. Mark A. Lafler The second half of the Book of Acts reads like a travel journal. Full of stories where St. Paul and his companions travel here and there throughout the...

Easter 5 – Sermon

5 Easter Year C Acts 11:1-18; Psalm 148; Revelation 21:1-6; John 13:31-35 Rev. Mark A. Lafler 5/15/2022 One of the things that I love about this time of year... Eastertide... Is that the lectionary takes us through the book of Acts. Of course, we are reading through...

Easter 4 – Sermon

4 Easter Year C Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30 Rev. Mark A. Lafler In our 23rd Psalm and in our Gospel reading we... The people of God... Are compared to... Being sheep. We are sheep precisely because we are followers of Jesus... Disciples of...

Easter 2 – Sermon

2 Easter Year C 4/24/2022 Acts 5:27-32; Psalm 118:14-29; Revelation 1:4-8; John 20:19-31 Rev. Mark A. Lafler The second Sunday of Eastertide is always dedicated to the disciple named Thomas. Often referred to as “Doubting Thomas” An unfortunate nickname that has stuck...

Easter Sunday – Sermon

1 Easter Year C 4/17/2022 Acts 10:34-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; 1 Corinthians 15:19-26; Luke 24:1-12 Rev. Mark A. Lafler On April 15th, 1965, 57 years ago Friday... a song was released that would climb the charts in the United States and Canada. Written by Hal David...

Lent 5 – Sermon

5 Lent Year C 4/3/2022 Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:4b-14; John 12:1-8 Rev. Mark A. Lafler Our Psalm today is the seventh of the collection of psalms known as the Songs of Ascent. There are 15 total of these... all grouped together here... Psalms 120...

Lent 4 – Sermon

4 Lent Year C 3/27/2022 Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 Rev. Mark A. Lafler We are around the halfway mark of the season of Lent. Three weeks until Easter Sunday. I hope your Lenten disciplines are going well. Of course, they are...

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