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Good Shepherd Sunday: A Call to Common Prayer and Formation

By Lisa | Published: April 22, 2013

A sermon offered by the Vicar, Lisa Fischbeck for Good Shepherd Sunday, 2013. The Advocate @ Unity   The year after I graduated from college,I worked for a marketing research firm in Dallas, Texas. And there I befriended Pat, a woman who worked in the firm and whose husband was in the final stages of his [...]

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Abrahamic Penitential Seasons: A Sermon for the 2nd Sunday in Lent

By Lisa | Published: February 27, 2013

Year C — Lent 2 February 24, 2013 The Advocate @Unity The Rev. Lisa G. Fischbeck   The day has come To take an accounting of my life.   Have I dreamed of late Of the person I want to be, Of the changes I would make In my daily habits, In the way I [...]

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Three Questions in the Wilderness

By Lisa | Published: February 21, 2013

A sermon preached by Zac Koons at The Episcopal Church of the Advocate, Chapel Hill, NC Lent 1:  February 17, 2013 Luke 4:1-13   I wonder when you were last alone. I don’t mean the last time you were the only human being left in a room. I don’t mean the last time you drove [...]

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Vicar’s Annual Report: Reflection and Hope

By Lisa | Published: February 18, 2013

Year C – Last Epiphany The Annual Meeting 2013 The Advocate@Unity The Rev. Lisa G. Fischbeck February 10, 2013     Always, Always on the last Sunday in the Season after the Epiphany, we are given the story of Moses. Not the story of Moses as a baby in the basket, not the story of [...]

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Keeping Each Other Honest: A Sam Laurent Sermon

By Lisa | Published: January 21, 2013

    Preached on the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, 2013 (Lectionary Year C), at the Episcopal Church of the Advocate, Chapel Hill NC. For more see: theologicalengagement.org Sometimes, epiphanies give us homework. Sometimes they come at just the right time, too, reaching into our uncertainty to reveal that we are in a place of unique [...]

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GHASTLY INTERRUPTIONS The Slaughter of the Innocents. A Sermon by the Rev. Canon Marilyn McCord Adams.

By Lisa | Published: December 16, 2012

GHASTLY INTERRUPTIONS The Slaughter of the Innocents   Life doesn’t always unfold in “synch” with the liturgical calendar.  Advent waits for cosmic interruption: the Word made flesh, a truly human but not only human God.  Friday featured an interruption of the opposite sort.  The governor of Connecticut declared: “evil visited this community today”–the kind of [...]

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The Church on the Way: A Sam Laurent Sermon

By Lisa | Published: December 3, 2012

The following sermon was preached at the Episcopal Church of the Advocate in Chapel Hill, NC on the first  Sunday of Advent, 12/2/2012. (Lectionary Year C) Reprinted from The Center for TheologicalEngagement:  http://theologicalengagement.org/ ————————————————————————————————————— Spoiler Alert: Advent ends with Christmas. I hope everybody was ready for that, and I don’t mean to ruin the suspense. But I’m [...]

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God’s impossible possibilities — A Sam Laurent Sermon

By Lisa | Published: October 28, 2012

God’s impossible possibilities A sermon by our resident theologian, Dr. Sam Laurent, on Sunday, October 28, 2012, based on the readings for Year B, Proper 25 in the Revised Common Lectionary   I don’t always believe in God, and I don’t always trust God. Probably, you don’t either. Not always. Doubt happens, as does disbelief. It’s part [...]

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“Who Do You Say That I Am?” A sermon by the Rev. Lisa G. Fischbeck

By Lisa | Published: September 17, 2012

Year B – Proper 19 The Advocate @ Unity September 16, 2012 The Rev. Lisa G. Fischbeck     In the Name of the One, Holy and Life-giving God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.   I don’t know if you all have noticed or not, but while here at the Advocate we are in [...]

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The Advocate and UNC Horizons — A Sermon

By Lisa | Published: September 2, 2012

Year B – Proper 11 July 22, 2012 The Advocate@Unity The Rev. Lisa G. Fischbeck   Jesus said to the apostles, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat [...]

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