Fr. Mike Seiler

An Unstoppable Force

Sep 6, 2026Fr. MikeSermonsChurch Discipline, Discipline, Faith in Action, Forgiveness, Forgiving, God With Us, Hatred, Judging, Judgment, Losing, Love, Reconciliation, Sin, Winning

Lectionary Readings: Year A, Proper 18 Years ago I was listening to a husband and wife talking about their first few months as a married couple. Most of you may have a similar story, though maybe not as in depth as these two. It all started with the toilet paper roll. The husband liked the…

Mistaken Identity, Too

Aug 30, 2026Fr. MikeSermonsChrist, Disciples, Discipleship, Evangelism, Fear, Following Jesus, Hatred, Judging, Judgment, Love, Messiah, True Religion

Lectionary Readings: Year A – Proper 17 Sometimes the way the lectionary splits things up is a bit odd. The readings we have today are a direct continuation of the conversation between Jesus and the disciples that we heard last week. And, instead of keeping the conversation in one reading, it was split into two.…

Mistaken Identity

Aug 23, 2026Fr. Mike1 CommentSermonsDiscernment, Identity, Jesus, King, King of Kings, Kingdom, Lord, Mark Twain, Prince and the Pauper, Salvation, Sin, Soteriology

Lectionary Readings: Year A – Proper 16 In 1882, Mark Twain published a little story here in the United States, which I’m sure all of you have heard about. It’s called The Prince and the Pauper, and it follows the lives of two young boys. One is Prince Edward VI, son of King Henry VIII…

Where Would You Rather Be?

Aug 9, 2026Fr. Mike1 CommentSermonsChaos, Faith, Faith in Action, Jaws, Jesus, Miracles, Peace, Storms, Walking on Water

Lectionary Readings: Year A – Proper 14 In the movie Jaws, there’s a scene where Martin Brody, the sheriff in town is sitting on the back of the boat, throwing out chum into the water, hoping that they’ll be able to attract the shark that they are hunting. He’s absent-mindedly talking to the ship’s captain…

You Already Know

Aug 2, 2026Fr. MikeSermonsDoubt, Faith, Fear, Feeding, Food, Hospitals, Impossible, Miracles, Possible, Preparation

Lectionary Readings: Year A, Proper 13 I’d like to tell you a story about a young seminarian. Many seminaries around the country require a hospital chaplaincy to graduate. The hospital this seminarian ended up at was a large urban hospital – a Level 1 trauma center. It was the hospital that dealt with major accidents,…

What’s It Like?

Jul 26, 2026Fr. MikeSermonsFaith, Faith in Action, Fish, Jesus, Judging, Judgment, Life, Parable, Parables, Priorities, Treasure

Heavy Burdens?

Jul 5, 2026Fr. Mike1 CommentSermonsGift, Injustice, Jesus, Justice, Religion, Rest, Righteousness, Salvation, Social Justice, Social Standing

Lectionary Readings: Year A, Proper 9 I want you to take a moment and imagine with me: You’re out, running errands. Even though you’ve planned the best you can, you’re coming a bit late for the church-wide landscaping and cleanup day. When you get into the parish hall, you realize that no one else is there,…

A Golden Statue

Jun 1, 2026Fr. MikeRandom Thoughts, Social CommentaryGod, Golden Calf, Idolatry, Idols, Immorality, Pride, Priorities, Sin, Social Commentary, Social Standing, Unscrupulousness

There once was a ruler of a nation who erected a large golden statue of himself. At the unveiling and dedication of this statue, important political figures in the nation, the governors, the spiritual and political advisers, the judges and magistrates, and many others, came to show their support of this marvelous statue. These people…

We Believe in One God

May 31, 2026Fr. MikeSermonsAwe, Beloved Community, Community, Core Beliefs, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Trinity

Today is Trinity Sunday. It’s the Sunday where we celebrate the mystery of the Trinity, the Godhead, the Three in One and One in Three. It’s something that has caused quite a bit of confusion among a lot of people for many years. Because the Trinity is not exactly a simple concept to wrap our brains around.

God the Father is God, but is not the Holy Spirit, and is not Jesus. Jesus is God, but is not the Father and is not the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is God, but is neither the Father, nor the Son. The three are one God, and yet also, distinctly three.

If you’re one of those people who hears that and says, “Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense. No problems here,” then I applaud you. The rest of Christendom, however, has spent quite a bit of time trying to explain this mystery in a way that makes sense, and in a way that all parties can agree on.

The Wellspring of Life

May 24, 2026Fr. MikeSermonsChildren, Eternal Life, Eternal Now, Eternity, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Infinite, Jesus, Life Abundant, Miracles, Pentecost

The Jesuit mystic, Anthony de Mello said, “If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are the perfect images of the kingdom. For them live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future. So they are spared the guilt and the anxiety that so torment human beings and they are full of the sheer joy of living.”