Sermons from August 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?