Sermons delivered in 2025
We Are Called to Listen Mark 8: 31-9: 8 – 2025/3/16
"The Lenten journey calls us to examine the things in which our hearts are invested, recognizing that we often insert our voices into the silence of God. Lent invites us to listen to God's wisdom for us and truly see [...]
God Meets Us Genesis 9: 8-17- 2025/3/9
The story of God’s covenant following the Great Flood reminds us that, again and again, God meets us. God meets us and promises to stay with us. "This story reminds us to hope, to believe that even in the midst [...]
A House Without A Foundation Luke 6: 39-49 – 2025/2/23
It is God's word, it is God's wisdom which gives us the strength, gives us the courage to become people of love and grace, to live in a way which reflects the Beloved Community in all we do and say. [...]
Behaving as God’s Children Luke 6: 27-38 – 2025/2/23
God shows grace, God shows mercy, God shows love to the just and the unjust. Luke tells us that we are to act in ways, speak in ways which reflect the character of God in all things and through all [...]
To Hear and To Be Healed Luke 6: 17-26 – 2025/2/16
Just as the disciples chose to hear Jesus, we can choose to invite the Gospel message into our hearts, in our minds, into our very beings. We can invite the Gospel message to transform us, to help us become the [...]
Leaving Everything Behind and Following Jesus Luke 5: 1-11 – 2025/2/9
Luke reminds us that our call as followers of Jesus is not about saving souls. It is not about membership numbers. Our call, our mission, our identity, our ministry as Jesus’ disciples is about building relationships with others, about being [...]
No Prophet is Welcome Luke 4: 21-30 – 2025/2/2
When we sit with this passage from Luke 4 for a while, we realize the crowd's reaction was never about Jesus. It was about them. It is about us. It is about the Beloved Community in our midst. It is [...]
Preach the Good News Luke 4: 14-21 – 2025/1-26
In Luke, we are told that Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returns to Galilee to begin his ministry. Unlike other Gospels where Jesus' ministry starts with miracles like turning water into wine, Luke has Jesus officially starting his ministry [...]
One Spirit, One Body 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11 – 2025/1/19
Laity Sunday is a reminder, a visible sign, of our commitment as a community of faith that we are all ministers and that our journeys have led us to this place, this community of Midway to serve. It also centers [...]
Baptism Luke 3: 15-17, 21-22 – 2025/1/12
On Baptism Sunday as we remember our own baptism, we use the opportunity for us to reclaim, to reaffirm who we are, especially when that narrative in our heads sometimes tells us that we are not enough, especially because we [...]