Sermons delivered in 2023
The Reflection Revelation 21:22-26 – 2023/6/18
When we encounter the world with all its beauty and its suffering, we get to see the larger picture and realize that our views and our ways of living, that our ways of understanding things, that even our way of [...]
The Encounter John 4: 7-40 – 2023/6/11
As travelers, we are challenged "to consider the impact of [our] travel on the people [we] meet, to delve deeply into the wonder of God's created world - and God's people - and to think carefully about how [our] travel [...]
Leaving Home Exodus 13: 17-20 – 2023/6/4
God intentionally led the people of Israel out of Egypt by a roundabout way, reminding us that sometimes the best part of the journey is not arriving at the destination but what we learn along the way, the people we [...]
The Day of Pentecost Acts 2: 1-21 – 2023/5/28
This is Pentecost...where the old is made new, where the celebration which honors the first fruits of the harvest takes on new meaning, where all the people of God are reminded of our connection to and for each other. May [...]
Made Your Name Known John 17:1-11- 2023/5/21
Jesus leaves his disciples with, leaves us with, this. . . a reminder that "it is in living out God's love for the world that we have oneness with God, that we have oneness with each other." This oneness is [...]
Spirit of Truth John 14:15-21 – 2023/5/14
We were given the Spirit of Truth to guide us, to ground us in God's Wisdom, and to help us find our way as we become the embodiment of God's love as we live out the vision of God's Beloved [...]
Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled John 14:1-14- 2023/5/7
As people of faith, we know that we are not alone, that we are surrounded by a community of brothers and sisters who walk with us, that we have the promise that there is nothing that can ever separate us [...]
How Did We Not Know? Luke 24:13-35 – 2023/4/30
At the Table, the disciples catch a glimpse of the Kingdom of God, which invites them to hear again that death does not have the last word. That in the Kingdom of God, all are seen as Beloved Children of [...]
The Church Needs to be A Joseph Genesis 41: 14-36 – 2023/4/16
Our scripture this morning is not a typical Earth Sunday passage. Rather it is a confrontation and a conversation about the ways of world, specifically in how we care for the land and care for others in crisis. April 16, [...]
How Do You Measure Transformation?” Mark 16: 1-8 – 2023/4/9
For Mark, what matters is that we have the promise that transformation, that the new life of the empty tomb, meets us in every single minute of every single day. For Mark and for us...the story is still being written. [...]