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Founded in 1885, St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Fort Myers, Florida, is the oldest parish in the diocese of Southwest Florida. We preach the Word of God with conviction and clarity. Listen for informative and inspiring sermons every Sunday in the City of Palms.
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Proper 21 Sermon—September 27, 2026 (opens the original)
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Today's brief parable in the Gospel of Matthew stages a collision between two themes that have been important to Matthew from the beginning: authority and hypocrisy. Fr. Jeff provides some background on both of these ideas. The Gospels emphasize that people respond to the teaching of Jesus because they recognize his authority. This is especially evidenced in Matthew chapter 8's account of the Roman centurion who expresses confidence that Jesus can heal his ailing servant just by the authority of
Proper 20 Sermon—September 20, 2026 (opens the original)
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On this Sunday the lectionary pairs the end of the book of Jonah and a parable of Christ from Matthew about a householder who hires laborers multiple times in one day. It's not clear at first what the connection might be, but Fr. Jeff has a theory: Jonah's story ends with him spitefully begrudging God's mercy and love being shown to the repentant citizens of Nineveh; the laborers in the parable spitefully begrudge the householder's generous sharing of his money with all the laborers, including t
Proper 19 Sermon—September 13, 2026 (opens the original)
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Fr. Grady connects today's Gospel to the teaching of Jesus about the church community in this chapter. Peter has already suggested that sinners should be forgiven far more than they deserve, but Jesus responds that in effect forgiveness should be infinite in scope. The parable that follows illustrates this boundless grace of God and the unforgiving heart of human beings.
Proper 18—September 6, 2026 (opens the original)
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Today's Gospel reading contains some tough teachings on church discipline. Fr. Jeff points out that Jesus gives his disciples authority to teach and lead the nascent church he founds on the rock of faith. That's a weighty responsibility, and while the whole witness of Scripture is clear that we should do everything we can to bring home the lost and forgive the sins of others, in some situations the lost persist in unrepentance. In such instances Jesus teaches a form of conscientious discipline t
Proper 17—August 30, 2026 (opens the original)
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Last week we heard about how Peter rightly confessed Jesus to be the Christ, the Messiah. No sooner does he make this breakthrough realization, which Jesus says comes from God and is the rock on which he will build his church, than Jesus is condemning him as a hindrance to his further mission. What changed so fast? Fr. Jeff opines that between Peter's confession and his objection to Jesus's eventual suffering and death there is a gap that opens up between knowing that Jesus is the Messiah and kn
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