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This week's sermons:
"The Invitation to Humility"
The Rev. Lex Breckinridge, Rector
 (The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, August 29, 2010)
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Top audio from the past 6 months

1. Hear My Prayer (Purcell) (Charles Rus et al.)
2. Learning How to Pray (Lex Breckinridge)
3. Psalm 91/Your Love (Charles Rus et al.)
4. All That's God's Is Yours (Lex Breckinridge)
5. Welcome Our Demons Home (Steve Best)
6. A Space for the Noisy Ones (Andrea Sato Borgmann)
7. The River Keeps On Flowing (Lex Breckinridge)
8. Marriage, Divorce & Forgiveness (Suzanne Coleman)
9. It Will Be Enough (Lex Breckinridge)
10. Into the Unknown (Lex Breckinridge)

Past sermons and Sunday forums are available below in text form, audio form, or both.

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Liturgical Year 2010

Ordinary Time (the Sundays after Pentecost)
Who, Me?   listen 8/22/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
What About Mary? read listen 8/15/10 the Rev. Steve Best
Maria Avenue [original music]   listen 8/15/10 Charles Rus & Ben Zobel
Wherever Your Treasure Is
[original music]		   listen 8/8/10 Charles Rus & Catherine Blundell
J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in E Minor   listen 8/8/10 Charles Rus, organ
Jan Sweelinck: Echo Fantasy [music]   listen 8/8/10 Charles Rus, organ
Fear Versus Love   listen 8/8/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Treasure Boxes read listen 8/1/10 Josh Hosler
Learning How to Pray   listen 7/25/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
It Will Be Enough   podcast 7/18/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
The Patron Saint of Parking read   7/14/10 Beth Zobel
Who Is My Neighbor? read podcast 7/11/10 the Rev. Steve Best
Interdependence Day read podcast 7/4/10 Josh Hosler
A Space for the Noisy Ones   podcast 6/27/10 Andrea Sato Borgmann
Welcome Our Demons Home   podcast 6/20/10 the Rev. Steve Best
A Different Kind of Judgment   podcast 6/13/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Where's My Miracle?   podcast 6/6/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Remodel or Rebuild?: Parish Life Center Update [forum] slides podcast 6/6/10 Mark Nelson & Gregg Murray
With No Words at All read podcast 5/30/10 Josh Hosler
Celtic Prayer [forum]   podcast 5/30/10 Tom Cashman

Pentecost 2010
Greater Love [special music]   podcast 5/23/10 Russ Borgmann, composer / St. Thomas Singers
Nine Months as Rector [forum]   podcast 5/23/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge

Easter 2010
We Are All One   podcast 5/16/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Seniors and Substance Abuse [forum]   podcast 5/16/10 Ruth Adams
Let the Weak Say I Am Strong [music]   podcast 5/9/10 St. Thomas Singers
Peace Is My Last Gift to You [music]   podcast 5/9/10 Charles Rus, St. Thomas Singers
Down by the Boathouse We Came to Pray   podcast 5/9/10 Steve Best
Parish Life Center Update slides

examples		 podcast 5/9/10 Mark Nelson
Loving All In   podcast 5/2/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Dark Night of the Soul (Part 3) [forum]   podcast 5/2/10 Charles Scalise
Sheep in a Jeep read podcast 4/25/10 the Rev. Steve Best
Psalm 23 [Roland Middleton]   podcast 4/25/10 St. Thomas Singers
Dark Night of the Soul (Part 2) [forum]   podcast 4/25/10 Charles Scalise
Do You Love Me? read podcast 4/18/10 Josh Hosler
The River Keeps On Flowing   podcast 4/4/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
The Easter Gospel   podcast 4/4/10 the Rev. Kathryn Ballinger/ St. Thomas Singers
The Great Vigil of Easter: Our Story   podcast (1 of 5) 4/3/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge/ St. Thomas Singers

Holy Week 2010
A Parable in Action   podcast 4/1/10 the Rev. Kathryn Ballinger
A Service of Tenebrae service leaflet podcast (1 of 16) 3/31/10 St. Thomas Singers
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out! read   3/28/10 the Rev. Steve Best

Lent 2010
Marriage, Divorce & Forgiveness   podcast 3/24/10 Suzanne Coleman
Knowing Jesus read podcast 3/21/10 Josh Hosler
Episcopal Relief & Development: Haiti Update [forum]   podcast 3/21/10 Brian Sellers-Petersen
All That's God's Is Yours   podcast 3/14/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Passions   podcast 3/10/10 Dick Rogers
Disturbia read   3/7/10 the Rev. Steve Best
Commission on Ministry Update [forum]   podcast 3/7/10 Dwight Russell
Into the Unknown   podcast 2/28/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
The Devil's Advocate read podcast 2/24/10 the Rev. Steve Best
Psalm 91/Your Love [music]   podcast 2/24/10 Charles Rus/ St. Thomas Singers
Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts [forum] view handouts podcast 2/24/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
A Fast and a Feast   podcast 2/17/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Hear My Prayer (Henry Purcell) [music]   podcast 2/17/10 Charles Rus & a small vocal ensemble

Epiphany 2010
Liminal Space   podcast 2/14/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Celtic Spirituality [forum] view handout podcast 2/14/10 Tom Cashman
We're Not Worthy!   podcast 2/7/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Love   podcast 1/31/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
The Truth Shall Make You Odd   streaming 1/24/10 the Rt. Rev. Greg Rickel
Fear of Scarcity   podcast 1/17/10 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Science, Technology and Spirituality [forum] view forum slides podcast 1/17/10 Andy Hoskins
Epiphany read podcast 1/10/10 Josh Hosler
Remembering Your Baptism [forum] view forum slides podcast 1/10/10 the Rev. Steve Best & Dwight Russell

Christmas 2009-2010
The Courage to Live Dangerously read   1/3/10 the Rev. Steve Best
Love Comes Crashing In read   12/24/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge

Advent 2009
A Woman's Worth   podcast 12/20/09 the Rev. Kathryn Ballinger
Grow Up   podcast 12/13/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Dostoyevsky [forum] view forum slides podcast 12/13/09 Irene McManman
Unlearn read podcast 12/6/09 Josh Hosler
What Is a Liturgist? [forum]   podcast 12/6/09 Charles Rus
Come to the Birthing Room   podcast 11/29/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge

Liturgical Year 2009

Ordinary Time (the Sundays after Pentecost)
No Ordinary Kingdom read podcast  11/22/09 the Rev. Steve Best
Women's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land [forum]   podcast 11/22/09 Mary Pneuman, Anne Rogers, the Rev. Kathryn Ballinger
Networking   podcast 11/17/09 the Rt. Rev. Greg Rickel
Look Beyond   podcast 11/15/09 the Rev. Kay Kessel-Hanna
Rwanda Girls School [forum]   podcast 11/15/09 Soozi McGill & Shal Foster
Stewardship Witness   podcast 11/8/09 Dick Rogers
Faith in Action   podcast 11/8/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
The Catechumenate and Other Paths to Baptism [forum]   podcast 11/8/09 the Rev. Steve Best
Stewardship Witness   podcast 11/1/09 Rachel Best
Tears   podcast 11/1/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Transfiguring Loss [forum]   podcast 11/1/09 Aileen Loranger
Stewardship Witness   podcast 10/25/09 Beth Zobel
Do You Choose to See?   podcast 10/25/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Diocesan Convention Wrap-up [forum]   podcast 10/25/09 Wes Ono
Stewardship Witness   podcast 10/18/09 Don Kestle
I've Never Been Job read podcast 10/18/09 Josh Hosler
A Shy Person's Guide to Evangelism [forum] view forum slides podcast 10/18/09 Carl Knirk
To Have It Both Ways   podcast 10/11/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Compassion >>> Community >>> Commitment [forum] view forum slides podcast 10/11/09 Mary Williams & Adam Breunig
No Longer Two, But One read podcast 10/4/09 the Rev. Steve Best
kiva.org [forum] view youth group lending profile podcast 10/4/09 Adam Breunig & Rachel Best
Good Intentions read podcast 9/27/09 Josh Hosler
Diocesan Convention Preview [forum] view forum slides, Diocesan Convention budget , Diocesan Convention resolutions podcast 9/27/09 Wes Ono
The Greatest   podcast 9/20/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Israel/Palestine  Update [forum]   podcast 9/20/09 John-Otto Liljenstolpe & Mary Pneuman
Welcoming Lex [special program]   podcast 9/13/09 Curt Young, MC
Embracing the Conflict   podcast 9/13/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Presenting Lex Breckinridge [forum]   podcast 9/13/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge
Beyond the Boundaries   podcast 9/6/09 the Rev. Lex Breckinridge