The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. It’s Time to Lighten Up! This is a strange time of year. The days are short, the nights are long, and even though we dream of more daylight, we walk around hoping against hope that there won’t be enough…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. A New Way to Follow Nations wage war, gangs battle each other, families quarrel, communities of faith divide. We hear others say and even hear ourselves saying, “There is no other way.” In Jesus, the light of Gods kingdom…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Seeing and Telling Who Jesus Is The time after Epiphany is the church’s time to invite us to come and see who this one born in a manger will be, and to discover what this one born to a…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. The Power of a God Who Is Humble From the time Jesus first presented himself for baptism by John until today, Christians have puzzled over why Jesus had to be baptized. The act of baptism was understood to be…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Joy and Sorrow at Christmas The joy-filled carols of Christmas still seem to echo in the nave as the assembly gathers for worship. There is praise of God in the psalm this day as the psalmist sings of the…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Please click on link to view sermon. Glory Enough for Everyone To maintain the machinery of empire, people must be counted; not to be valued as individuals, but to assess tribute. It is the census. Lists of family members, and decisions about them, must be made.…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. A Meaning-Making Name Names are powerful makers of meaning both in the scriptures and in our lives. Consider how much we associate people with their names. A name is merely a word, a sound, yet it can completely represent a person. And our names can…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Living In the Now and the Not Yet In this season of Advent we stand in the discomforting quiet of waiting for the salvation of the Lord while simultaneously seeing that very salvation breaking into the world around us. Like John the Baptist we ask…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Pointing to Jesus John the Baptist is a fitting messenger for the season of Advent, a time for the church to prepare for both the nativity of the Christ and for his second coming. John’s call to repentance in preparation of Jesus’ arrival carries a…
The sermon will be a post on our Facebook page. Turn On. Tune In. Wake Up! In the 1960’s people were urged to turn on, tune in, and drop out—to leave the material world behind in favor of an alternate reality. In today’s gospel, Jesus also urges us to tune into an alternative to the…