Sermons from February 2025
Rule Followers
Love your enemies. What are we to do with this? What grace is there in this counter-intuitive approach?
Plain Speaking
This week we hear with fresh ears Jesus’ “sermon on the plain.” How does this passage offer deep encouragement and challenge, all at the same time?
On Being a Christian in America
Our guest speaker Dr. Karl Martin draws on his long experience as a professor of American culture to reflect on what it means to be a citizen of both this secular nation and of God’s present and coming kingdom.
Lea Ann Walker Celebration of Life
We gather to celebrate the remarkable life of our sister in Christ, Lea Ann Walker.
Bringing It Home
Our reading from Luke picks up where we left off last Sunday. Jesus was in his hometown of Nazareth where he was initially received a warm, enthusiastic welcome. But that welcome quickly turned to anger and Jesus narrowly escaped being thrown off a cliff. What caused the uproar from Jesus’ hometown folks? And when or how does that kind of anger get provoked in us?