Sermons delivered in 2025
“Fruits of the Spirit” Acts 2: 1-4 Galatians 5: 16-26 – 2025/6/8
Often, we limit our celebration of Pentecost to one day. Yet Pentecost is a reminder, a celebration that the Holy Spirit is with us now and always. Each and every day our lives, our worlds, our actions are shaped by [...]
Council at Jerusalem Acts 15: 1-18 – 2025/6/1
At its core, our text for this morning is about identity and how that identity shapes our practices of faith. We need to remember that the early Church was not Christian; Jesus didn't come to start a new religion. So [...]
Do You Really Understand What You Are Reading? Acts 8: 26-39 – 2025/5/25
This strange story of the Ethiopian eunuch could have easily laid out a rigid dogma of belief which the early church was supposed to follow. This story could have easily set the course for practice which would have shaped the [...]
Stephen’s Witness Acts 6:1 – 7:2a, 44-60 – 2025/5/18
Stephen's story reminds us of the challenges of discipleship, things we often tend to forget or ignore. It shows us that we are called to testify in all things and through all things to God's love. It also reminds us [...]
Walk to Emmaus Luke 24: 13-35 – 2025/5/11
Through the story of the walk to Emmaus, the author of Luke is reminding us, as ones who follow a Risen Savior, the very core of our faith is the knowledge, the understanding, the promise given to us by a [...]
Feed My Sheep John 21: 1-19 – 2025/5/4
In our text for this morning, having denied Christ three times, Peter is given a chance for reconciliation. But I would argue that the author of our text extends that chance to us as well. We are given an opportunity [...]
There is a Season Ecclesiastes 3: 1-15 – 2025/4/27
The Appalachian region is deeply rooted in customs that have been handed down for generations. "Planting by the signs," a practice predicated on the belief that moon phases and astrological signs exert a powerful influence on the growth and well-being [...]
The Sun Rises Mark 16: 1-8 – 2025/4/20
How do you make the Easter story new again? Haven't we heard it all before? These are the questions I ask myself, to which I reply: I don't. We don't. And that is the point. It is the same story [...]
We Draw on Courage John 12: 1-19 – 2025/4/13
"[Like the people of Jerusalem,] we are in a time when we need to draw on courage to call into question the structures that uphold systems of oppression. We are in a time when we need to subvert the powerful [...]
We Are Reformed Jeremiah 31: 31-34; John 12: 20-33 – 2025/4/6
Too often we use so much of our energy trying to maintain the past or present, that we no longer have the strength to embrace the future. It is never about forgetting what was. It is about honoring the path [...]