Sermons from 2024
Gird Your Loins!
This week we contemplate what we can “put on” in service to God’s kin-dom. This passage is full of language that has the potential to ruffle our “spiritual” feathers. But it also offers us courage and hope for living lives of peace and promise in a world that still struggles between death-dealing forces and forces that bring love and light.
A Life of Imitation
By the grace of Jesus Christ, we are invited to live into and be a part of an “alternative community,” where we seek to “imitate God.” How is that even possible? If we were to take that seriously, what would it require of us and how would it make a difference to the world around us?
Backward and Forward
Psalm 130 is one we might want to carry in our back pockets these days. And it reminds us, all the while, God is there, somehow seeing “backward and forward.”
Knowing Our Hunger
Understanding our spiritual hunger can be a tricky thing. Does it lead us down paths of destruction or does it turn our hearts and spirits toward God and one another?
God’s Symphony: Sowing and Reaping in Faith
We are in relationship with all of God’s creation. How does that relationship inform and inspire our faith?
Making History Now
Join us for Pride Sunday as look back at “what was,” mark the moment of “what is,” and lean into “what will be.” Happy Pride!
King or Prophet?
What on earth do we have to learn from a fickle King and a headless prophet? Why did Mark include this account here and what does it have to say to us today?
Travel Light
Jesus “hit a bump” when he attempted to minister in his hometown of Nazareth. It was a good opportunity to teach his disciples (then and now) what it means to travel light as we journey through life and seek to be of consequence for Christ in the world.
Faith and Trust: Our Faith in God, God’s Faith in Us
Ken Brown, our Lay Leader and Church Council Chair, will bring the message, inviting us to consider our faithfulness to God as well as God’s continued faithfulness to us.
Faith and Fear
Join us as we explore Mark’s version of the account of Jesus stilling the storm. While most of us haven’t found ourselves on storm-tossed seas, haven’t all of us have weathered turbulent times in life, times when fear rises and faith falters?