Sermons
Sermon for September 15, 2024 - The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
How has God placed a call on your heart to love? Where do you feel you called to serve? How do your actions, each and every day, reflect the mission of Christ?
Sermon for September 8, 2024 - The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
After all, we do know, we really do know from our own personal experiences just how deeply God loves each and everyone of us – and that is exactly what this neighborhood of West Broadway needs to hear and see from us.
Sermon for September 1, 2024 - The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
This text shows us that Jesus sees clearly the ugliness of human hearts, yet he does not turn away.
Sermon for August 25, 2024 - The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
God is working life in the midst of apparent failure and rejection.
Sermon for August 18, 2024 - The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Jesus promises rather than instructs or explains. Jesus promises that whoever eats the flesh and drinks the blood of Jesus, the Son of Man, has eternal life now and will be raised up on the last day.
Sermon for July 21, 2024 - The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
When we take time to slow down, when we take time to see and feel the presence of God around us, we begin to see that we are surrounded by an abundance.
Sermon for July 14, 2024 - The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Essential to Mark’s Gospel, is that the presence of Jesus exposes the duplicity, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, of the kingdoms and empires to which we are supposed to participate in.
Sermon for July 7, 2024 - The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
What is it that you might need to let go of and trust that God will care for you?
Sermon for June 30, 2024 - The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
With God there is always reason to hope.
Sermon for June 23, 2024 - National Indigenous Day of Prayer
Now is the time to continue to do the work of truth telling and reconciliation. Truth and Reconciliation is the light shining in the darkness of the past.
Sermon for June 9, 2024 - The Third Sunday after Pentecost
The Holy Spirit is wild and disturbing and comes to us in unfamiliar and unexpected forms.
Sermon for June 2, 2024 - The Second Sunday after Pentecost
Sabbath-keeping is a resistance movement, and it’s very counter-cultural. Sabbath keeping is a resistance to the clutter, the noise, the advertising, the busyness, and the “virtual living” that sucks the life out of our lives.
Sermon for May 26, 2024 - Trinity Sunday
There are endless ways to pray. In the face of anxiety and uncertainty, play with your prayer, going beyond seeming proficiency. Try a medium with which you’re not familiar and discover what unfolds.
Sermon for May 19, 2024 - The Sunday of Pentecost
“The Spirit blows where it will.” There’s really no telling what will happen if we dare to ask.
Sermon for May 12, 2024 - The Sunday of the Ascension
We are called to awaken our faith, to hold fast to Jesus who once dwelt among us but has now withdrawn heavenward.
Sermon for May 5, 2024 - The Sixth Sunday of Easter
His way is not easy but by following him we will be forever changed, and our joy will be made complete.
Sermon for April 28, 2024 - The Fifth Sunday of Easter
We are mediators of God’s grace, God’s love, God’s power to save and heal. As branches we receive the life of the vine and pass it along to others.
Sermon for April 21, 2024 - The Fourth Sunday of Easter
We are rescued and provided for by the shepherd. We will need that help almost continually.
Sermon for April 14, 2024 - The Third Sunday of Easter
God looks over this broken and scarred world – and over the broken and scarred people who inhabit it – and reclaims it, and them, with love.
Sermon for April 7, 2024 - The Second Sunday of Easter
Each and every one of us can know and worship God as no one else can.