Series

Stone Sunday

Apr 13, 2025   ·     •   Luke 19:28-40 

The stones cry out to proclaim the coming of a king who is not a king.  More

A Tabernacle for the Presence of God

Luke’s gospel reminds us that all significant moments in Jesus’ life were preceded by or finished with prayer. This is something to remember, especially in times when life seems increasingly uncertain. More

Love Does Not Follow the Boundaries We Set

Feb 02, 2025   ·     •   Luke 2:22-40

We are people of the way; we follow so that our selfish desires are muted, and we follow someone who calls us to be merciful, to see each other, and to be of service to each other. More

Christmas II : What We Remember and What We Forget

Jan 05, 2025   ·     •   Luke 2:41-52

If we leave it up to our brains only and not our community and our sense of something more, we seek to hold on to the past and shield ourselves from seeing our faith in a new light. More

Christmas Eve | Something Audacious, Something Radical

Dec 24, 2024   ·     •   Luke 2:1-14

On Christmas Eve, the baby is in the manger. We proclaim something audacious, something radical…God has broken into the world and everything has changed.  More

Telling Our Stories of Jesus

Apr 23, 2023   ·     •   Luke 24:13-35

…we pick up the stories, and we re-tell them again and again. We roll them around in our mouths, good storytellers try new ways to start them, and we see what sparks an interest. More

Feels like Me. Feels Like Home. Always Has.

Mar 12, 2023   ·     •   Luke 19:41-44

Being seen. It’s a powerful thing. To know that another human being has truly seen you, understood you,
received you for who you really are: That is pure grace. It is being seen. Most of us would do anything for it. More

Break Down the Dams! (And let justice roll on like a [free-flowing] river)

Oct 30, 2022   ·     •   Luke 19: 1-10

…Particularly as seekers, as people of faith, the danger of supporting these dams, these divisions, is creating for ourselves a finite God of our own image and our own making. By deciding who is in and who is out; who is acceptable and who is not. And oftentimes when we exclude others, we also end up excluding ourselves from God’s grace, love, and mercy….we are all responsible for breaking down the dams around us….After all, what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with God. More

Faith and Certainty

Oct 02, 2022   ·  

  The sermon can be viewed here. More

Moving Forward: The Rich Man and Lazarus

Sep 25, 2022   ·     •   Luke 16:19-31

It is an unrelenting focus on the present and the future that marks our faith. Early Christianity was called “The Way” by its adherents. It’s not “the meander.” It is not “the look backwards.” Even when we remember, as we do, every time we celebrate the Eucharist, it is to anchor our present and to guide our future. More