The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Our Home-making God Into the midst of our anxiety and alarm we are offered a vision of a glorious future filled with promise—the promise that God will make a home with us. This is a promise of an ultimate…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. God’s Beautifully Messy Community From abandonment to homecoming and from a narrow scope to a broader vision of God’s realm, these are the promises proclaimed. The early church and our faith communities are called to engage this reality. A…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. The Searching Sheep Messages and information today are texted, tweeted, broadcast, e-mailed, phoned, lectured, announced, packaged, and repackaged. The means and avenues for communication are many. Yet when it comes to the person known as Jesus of Nazareth we…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Do You Love Me? Follow Me When we encounter Jesus, we are changed and will never be the same. Jesus can be revealed in a blinding light on the road, in an abundance of fish, in breakfast on the…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Can I Get a Witness? The texts for today explore what it means to be a witness: the power of seeing and experiencing the resurrection firsthand. For those of us who weren’t there in person to witness Christ’s death,…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. The Day, the Day What is Easter anyway? Christians consider Easter to be the “first day.” From Easter comes the practice of worshiping on Sunday morning. It is the first day of the week. It is also the first…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. The Voice of God Are you longing to hear God’s voice? What would it be like to hear God call you by name? For many it seems that God spoke to people long ago and far away, but now…
The Holy Spirit’s Groaning The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Few sounds capture a groan like birth pangs. It is the raw sound of life and birth as well as of pain. It is the guttural desire for the end of the waiting for what…
Move In Day The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Each fall is the perennial move-in day on or near college campuses. Legions of parents descend with carloads that include tiny refrigerators, Ikea furniture, electronics, area rugs, and posters. They unload the one they have birthed,…
Count Us In The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. God keeps the promise made to David to give him an everlasting throne. The angel tells Mary that God will give David’s throne to her son Jesus. She is perplexed by Gabriel’s greeting and by the…