Christmas Eve Sermon: We Have Seen a Great Light
And this is a story about love, radical love, love that knows no class system or status, the love that God has for each one of us just the way we are. This love...
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Sermon: Moving with Mary’s Song
... the Christmas story is not only about the birth of a tiny baby that would change the world, but it is also the story of a defiant young girl standing the pu...
Sermon: Sign of Things to Come
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at tha...
Sermon: Praise the Holy One
This past Wednesday evening I met with the search committee for the first meeting. The search committee, as you know, is tasked with finding my replacement. I a...
Sermon: Risk and Restoration
This morning we come face to face and have to deal with, two very different stories presented to us from the Gospel of Mark. On the one hand, we have the...
Sermon: Take Heart
This was not the sermon I intended to preach yesterday but, due to the events of the past week, I rewrote my sermon. This is just the text, and I added some wor...
Sermon: Great Service
Donald Meichenbaum, one of American Psychologist’s ten most influential psychotherapists, tells a story of the time his car was struck by lightning while ...
Sermon: Enfolding Love
Mark 10:2-16 A Newly ordained minister had just finished preaching her first sermon in her very first church when a woman approached her at the welcome receptio...
Sermon: First in Caring
On infrequent occasions in the gospel, do we get a glimpse of Jesus alone teaching his apostles. There are not many times recorded when Jesus is truly alone wit...
Sermon: Who Are You, Jesus?
When you meet someone for the first time, you might ask them their name and where they are from. As the relationship continues you find out more about them, are...