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Field Notes: Stories from St. Martin's

Podcast by St Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church

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About Field Notes: Stories from St. Martin's

Sermons, teaching, and interviews from St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas. We seek to proclaim the Good New of Jesus Christ, so that the people of northeast Tarrant County and beyond might know they are loved by God.

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episode The Reason Nobody Wants to Hear About Your Faith (And How to Fix It) artwork

The Reason Nobody Wants to Hear About Your Faith (And How to Fix It)

What does your mom have to do with evangelism? More than you think. This sermon starts with a simple question: if you wanted to tell someone about a woman who shaped your life, what would you say? You wouldn't hand them a spreadsheet. You wouldn't list her measurable outputs. You'd testify -- about how she loved you, showed up for you, changed you. So why do we think sharing our faith looks like winning a debate? Drawing on 1 Peter 3, this message reframes "always be ready to give an account" away from intellectual self-defense and toward something far more honest: testimony. Something happened. It changed me. Let me tell you about it. The hope Peter is talking about isn't a vague feeling that things will work out. It's the specific, resurrection-grounded claim that we are free to live differently right now -- free to do good even when it costs something, free to love even when it's easier not to. That's a hope worth knowing well enough to say out loud.

10 May 2026 - 10 min
episode God's Mercy is Bigger Than You Think! artwork

God's Mercy is Bigger Than You Think!

On the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Fr. Alan Bentrup preaches from Acts 7, John 14, and 1 Peter 2 at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas. Two of the most misused texts in the New Testament show up in this week's readings. John 14 has been turned into a border checkpoint. 1 Peter 2 has been stamped onto a flag. Both readings have been used to draw the circle small and keep people out. But then Luke slips a single sentence into the story of Stephen's martyrdom: the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. The man who wrote half the New Testament was holding the coats. This sermon asks what it means to worship a God whose mercy is bigger than our categories, bigger than our politics, bigger than our preferences, and bigger than the lines we have drawn around who deserves it. St. Martin's Episcopal Church | Keller, Texas Easter 5, Year A | Acts 7:55-60, Psalm 31, 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14

4 May 2026 - 10 min
episode Jesus Doesn't Wait for Your Doubt to Resolve | A Second Sunday of Easter Sermon artwork

Jesus Doesn't Wait for Your Doubt to Resolve | A Second Sunday of Easter Sermon

What does it mean that the risen Jesus keeps saying the same thing? To frightened disciples behind a locked door. To Thomas in his doubt. Over and over: "Peace be with you."In this Easter Sunday sermon at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas, Fr. Alan explores John 20:19-31 and what the resurrection has to do with a plumber named Mike Jesus, a week of doubt, and the moment every Sunday when a room full of people turns toward each other and says the peace.Jesus does not wait for the fear to lift. He does not wait for the doubt to resolve. He walks in and says it anyway.That is not a small thing. That is the resurrection moving through a room.St. Martin's Episcopal Church | Keller, TexasSecond Sunday of Easter | Year AJohn 20:19-31

12 Apr 2026 - 10 min
episode The Sound of Hell Undone | The Great Vigil at St Martin's artwork

The Sound of Hell Undone | The Great Vigil at St Martin's

All week we have been listening. A crowd. Water poured out. A hammer. And then silence.T onight the ground shook. In this Great Vigil of Easter service from St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Keller, Texas, Fr. Alan offers a brief reflection on what the resurrection actually sounds like: not a quiet next chapter, but an earthquake. The sound of a door torn off its hinges from the inside. The sound of death discovering it has been outsmarted. Hell made its move on Friday. It looked like a victory. It was not a victory. And no one has ever said that better than John Chrysostom. Written in the fourth century and never improved upon, his Paschal Homily is one of the great proclamations of the Christian faith. Rather than compete with it, Fr. Alan steps aside and lets Chrysostom preach. Listen. The Sounds of Holy Week St. Martin's Episcopal Church | Keller, Texas Scripture: Matthew 28:1–10

5 Apr 2026 - 4 min
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