Genesis 22:1-14 Matthew 10:40-42 One of the most well-known excerpts of T.S. Eliot’s poem, Four Quartets, is the beginning of the final...

Psalm 112, Philippians 2: 1-11, Luke 14: 1, 7-14 It was 2007, the year I retired. I was on an ancestry hunt, researching what I hoped...

Isaiah 58, Psalm 103, Luke 13 Resilience is a word I’ve thought about this week. I heard a school principle in the north country state...

Jeremiah 23:23-29; Luke 12:49-56 As I mentioned during announcements, this is my final Sunday with you this summer. I would rather that I...

Genesis 15:1-6; Luke 12:32-40 I’d like to spend some time with the first lesson that Luke Harris read from Genesis because it becomes the...

Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23; Luke 12:13-21 Our first lesson today from Ecclesiastes, which Ella Nalle read for us, has historically...

Genesis 18:20-32; Luke 11:1-13 For those of you who were here last week, you will have to endure another story from the boarding school...

Genesis 18:1-10; Luke 10:38-42 The lesson that I just read from Luke’s gospel is a type of short, encapsulated story that is often called...

A sermon preached by the Rev. Robert L. Tate on Sunday, July 10, 2022 at The Church of the Ascension, Saranac Inn, NY. Today is a very...

2 Kings 5:1-14 Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Our first lesson from the Old Testament that Hank Harder read is a rich story with far more to reflect...

Mark 7:24-30 I’ve been practicing my talent for getting lost. Rosie the hound dog and I set off this week to visit a certain sandy bank...

Jesus had been preaching and healing in large outdoor spaces around the sea of Galilee - think of the parking lot at the boat launch or...

Every Sunday within the Christian church is a celebration of Resurrected Life in Jesus. In addition to that assumed foundation, I am...

I’m going to try and do three things with you today. First, I will draw our attention to a distinction that Jesus makes between material...

Our passage today from the Gospel of John describes an event that took place the day after Jesus fed the 5,000 with five loaves and two...

Today we hear John’s account of one of the most famous episodes of Jesus’ ministry, the feeding of the five thousand. I’d like to begin...

Jeremiah 23:1-6 Psalm 23 Ephesians 2:11-22 Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 The first verse of our Gospel lesson to which I would like to draw your...

Amos 7:7-15 Mark 6:14-29 We are thrust into a story of royal incest this morning through Mark’s account of John the Baptist’s death. We...

Deuteronomy 10:17-21 Hebrews 11:8-16 Matthew 5:43-48 Many of you know I scooted west last September after our last service. Caught up...

Dear Church of the Ascension, Labor Day weekend signals the end of our summer worship season at the Church of the Ascension.  As seasonal...