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Father Shawn McCain Tirres | August 23, 2026 Father Shawn McCain Tirres reflects on the challenging story of the Canaanite woman and what it reveals about God's expanding circle of mercy. Drawing from Resurrection South Austin's own costly journey of crossing denominational boundaries for the sake of radical hospitality, he explores how Jesus continually breaks down the lines we draw around who…
Father Shawn McCain Tirres | August 16, 2026 Have you ever been part of a church with amazing worship but overlooked injustice within its own walls? Or known someone passionate about justice but disconnected from prayer? Father Shawn explores Jesus's brilliant response to a trap question that reveals the inseparable nature of loving God and loving neighbor. This Rally Day sermon challenges us to…
Rev. Canon Leyla King | August 09, 2026 When Jesus walks on water and calls Peter to come, Peter's sinking isn't a failure—it's faith in action. In a world filled with violence, division, and overwhelming chaos, we're invited not to conquer our fears but to step out into the storm anyway, knowing we'll need to reach for Jesus when we start to sink. Drawing on her experience as a Palestinian…
Father Shawn McCain Tirres | August 02, 2026 In a world full of tables promising satisfaction but leaving us empty, there's one table that operates on a completely different economy. Father Shawn explores the contrast between Herod's table of scarcity and exploitation versus Jesus' table of abundance and grace. Drawing from the feeding of the 5,000, he challenges us to examine which economy we're…
Father Scott Madison | July 26, 2026 In this exploration of five parables from Matthew 13, we discover that God's kingdom is both hidden and near, expansive yet built on tiny acts of faith. Through images of mustard seeds, yeast, treasures, pearls, and fish, Jesus reveals that we are the beloved treasures God seeks, filled with love, grace, and mercy. The kingdom bursts forth when we tend to our…
Father Shawn McCain Tirres | July 19, 2026 Using Jesus' parable of the wheat and weeds, Father Shawn challenges our compulsion to fix ourselves and others. Drawing from memories of his grandfather's farm, he explores why God tells us to stop sorting, stop controlling, and instead entrust ourselves to the divine Gardener who alone knows how to tend our souls without causing damage. This sermon…
Father Shawn McCain Tirres | July 12, 2026 Ever wonder if the small things you do actually make a difference? In a world that feels overwhelmingly broken, it's easy to believe our quiet acts of service, kindness, and faithfulness are too insignificant to matter. Through Jesus' parable of the sower, Father Shawn reveals how God works with reckless abandon and extravagant generosity—sowing seeds…
Father Shawn McCain Tirres | July 05, 2026 Father Shawn explores how we often size people up before knowing them—and how we do the same with God. Through Jesus' lament over a generation that rejected both John the Baptist's austerity and Jesus' celebration, we see a pattern: we prejudge God's messengers and miss what we desperately need. Yet even after our rejection, Jesus still offers rest to the…
Father Shawn McCain Tirres | June 28, 2026 We want God to show up spectacularly—in neon signs and dramatic reversals. But what if God is already at work in the quiet, humble acts of love we overlook? Father Shawn explores how the kingdom of God doesn't arrive in flashy ways, but through ordinary faithfulness: planting gardens in exile, bringing water to the thirsty, showing up when the work is…
Rev. Janna Osborne | June 21, 2026 In a world that often feels foreign and strange, how do we recognize God's presence? Drawing from personal stories of grandfathers who modeled care, action, and hospitality, this sermon explores what it means to be shaped by faith across generations. When life challenges us in ways we don't like, we're called not just to do good works, but to boldly proclaim that…
Father Scott Madison | June 14, 2026 Father Scott explores the connection between Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem 'We Wear the Mask' and Jesus' commissioning of the disciples in Matthew 9-10. Drawing from his own experience as a Black man in America, Scott unpacks how Jesus calls us to do the difficult work of showing radical love that defies social norms—even when we face persecution. This sermon…
