Sermons from 2024

Sermons from 2024

Endings and Beginnings

From Jesus’ conversation with the disciples about the destruction of the temple, what life lessons might we learn about the very real difficulty of endings and the very real possibility of something new?

Giving and Receiving

The story of the widow’s mite raises questions not only about giving but about the integrity of the recipients of gifts. What do we… both givers and receivers… have to learn anew?

Do Unto Others: Love

This week we conclude our “Do Unto Others” series with a focus on love. Over these five weeks, we’ve remembered Christ’s call to kindness, compassion, humility, respect, and love. How can we embody these qualities even in times of tension and disagreement?

Do Unto Others: Respect

This week we’ll explore the role of respect as we seek to live out our faith amid the daily joys and challenges of our lives.  How might a holy respect draw us back to engagement with others?

Do Unto Others: Humility

We continue in our five-week series “Do Unto Others.” Can prioritizing “humility” in our lives help us to see one another more clearly as fellow humans, each one beloved by God?

Do Unto Others: Compassion

Reflecting on Isaiah’s mind-bending vision of compassion, what if compassion doesn’t start within relationships, but instead within ourselves?

Do Unto Others: Kindness

In the midst of all the vitriol and animosity in our world today, how can we stay true to our convictions and engage one another as people and not as positions?

God’s Presence Among Us

In the Bible, God’s physical presence with humans is noted in at least five different ways…walking with Adam in the Garden of Eden, within the flaming bush before Moses, in the Ark of the Covenant kept in the Tabernacle and Temple of Solomon, in the person of Jesus, and at Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit became the presence of God among God’s people.  Throughout Christian history, our places of worship have used light as a metaphor for the presence of the Almighty. Where is God’s presence and light in our world now, a world that seems so desperate to see it?

Circle Round

According to Jesus, the ways of discipleship are deeply counter-cultural. Want to be a follower of Jesus? Give your life for others in order to save it. Strive to be at the back of the line instead of the front. Turn the hierarchy of honor and privilege upside down. In fact, dismantle it altogether. Be with and for one another in ways that defy cultural norms but that encircle all God’s children into a communion of neighborly love.