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Anna Sutterisch

The Rev. Anna Sutterisch is passionate about new ways of being and doing church and sharing the Gospel in a way that is relevant and life-changing to today’s people in today’s world. Rev. Anna is a proud graduate of Bexley Seabury Seminary and serves as priest in charge at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Chagrin Falls. She lives in Cleveland with her spouse (also a parish priest), two small humans, and two cats, and loves to run, cook, and eat vegetables.

Sermons and Bible Studies

Don’t Be Afraid, Pentecost 9 (C) – August 10, 2025

August 10, 2025

[RCL] Isaiah 1:1, 10-20; Psalm 50:1-8, 23-24; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40 Don’t be afraid, little flock. There’s no need to spiral, to crash out, to stress yourself over things that won’t last. Instead, root yourself in what truly matters. You don’t have to figure it all out on your own. Open your hands. Melt […]

Mustard Seed, Pentecost 4 (B) – June 16, 2024

June 16, 2024

[RCL] Ezekiel 17:22-24; Psalm 92:1-4,11-14; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, [11-13], 14-17; Mark 4:26-34 Note: During the 2024 Season after Pentecost, Sermons That Work will use Track 2 readings for sermons and Bible studies. Please consult our archives for many additional Track 1 resources from prior years. Oh, the mustard seed. Like tiny granules of salt or […]

Unpredictable, Lent 2 (B) – February 25, 2024

February 25, 2024

[RCL] Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16; Psalm 22:22-30; Romans 4:13-25; Mark 8:31-38 God’s truth is unchangeable. But it’s not predictable. Do you ever wish we lived in precedented times? Maybe live a week without a once-in-a-hundred-years catastrophe, without shock and surprise in the news, without a rupture in our day-to-day that might make things feel out of […]

Worship the Unity, Trinity Sunday (A) – 2023

June 04, 2023

[RCL] Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20 Today is Trinity Sunday, which might also be interpreted as Unity Sunday. Not to be confused with conformity or sameness, unity is, of course, impossible to create without generosity, love, and humility in inevitable conflict. The Trinity itself is an example of the tension, beauty, […]

Making Meaning Out of Mystery, Easter 3 (A) – 2023

April 23, 2023

[RCL] Acts 2:14a,36-41; Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17; 1 Peter 1:17-23; Luke 24:13-35 When strange things happen, what do you do? When hard things happen, to whom do you turn? There is so much in the world and in the human experience that is confusing, troubling, or concerning, and we each have different tools and habits to […]

What Do I Want This Very Minute?, Easter 6 (C) – 2022

May 22, 2022

[RCL] Acts 16:9-15; Psalm 67; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 14:23-29 or John 5:1-9 We begin with a garden. It’s no small matter that the committee who culled, edited, and arranged our anthology of sacred texts started the pages with the story of creation, of growth, of dreams. And in the final pages of our anthology, […]

Repentance and Reconciliation, Lent 4 (C) – 2022

March 27, 2022

[RCL] Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 During Lent, it can be easy to view the season of penitence as one focused on sin, separation, and shame. We can use Lenten disciplines as a way to self-flagellate, wear sackcloth and ashes, bear the crosses of giving up chocolate or committing to […]

Joyfully, Wednesday in Holy Week – 2021

March 31, 2021

RCL:  Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 70; Hebrews 12:1-3; John 13:21-32 Accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time? Don’t you wish you could be the kind of person who could do what our collect says? You know, the kind of person who turns the other cheek, who never gets pulled into the petty, who responds to […]

The Semiotics of Jesus, Holy Name Day – 2021

January 01, 2021

[RCL] Numbers 6:22-27; Psalm 8; Galatians 4:4-7 or Philippians 2:5-11; Luke 2:15-21 We put a lot of weight on names. Think about the importance that is conveyed when we use our complete name, middles and hyphens and Jr.’s and all, in a vow or an oath. Or the exciting rush when a host at a […]

Bible Study: Proper 11 (C) – 2019

July 21, 2019

Amos 8:1-12 A basket of summer fruit: the prophet Amos lived among a group of shepherds and was “a dresser of sycamore trees” (Amos 7:14), so he knew and appreciated a basket of fruit more than anyone. He also knew that ripe summer fruit rots quickly. That’s the warning he was giving to the privileged […]

Bible Study: Trinity Sunday (C) – 2019

June 16, 2019

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 The book of Proverbs is a collection of traditional cultural lessons—propositional statements, observational sayings, analogies, and ethics—structured as the teachings of a father to a son. This kind of “instructional literature” is one of the ways a family nurtures how a child is socialized into a certain world. These proverbs were passed […]

Bible Study: Easter 2 (C) – 2019

April 28, 2019

Acts 5:27-32 The Book of Acts was probably written by one of Paul’s companions, maybe his physician Luke, and is full of tales of divine intervention, miraculous conversions, and healings. The author seems to be saying, “We can carry on Jesus’s ministry!” In chapter 5, we hear about an encounter with the temple police, one […]

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