Acts 19:1-7; Mark 1:4-11; January 14, 2024; Baptism of our Lord Sunday The following quote is from Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter from Birmingham jail: “I am cognizant of the…
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Matthew 2:1-12; January 7, 2024; Epiphany Sunday Change is hard. Change is so hard that we will do some crazy stuff just to avoid it. Like, we will keep wearing…
Luke 2:36-40; December 31, 2023; First Sunday of Christmas So, in the first couple of years of Seth’s life, my wife and I have had wildly different parenting styles. It’s…
Luke 2:1-7 You know, there’s a single line in that previous reading that sums up the context of the gospel just perfectly for me. It’s a surprising line. I don’t…
Psalm 126; Luke 1:46-55; December 17, 2023; Third Sunday of Advent Let us together remember the words from our Call to Worship this morning, from Psalm 126:1-2: “When the Lord…
Isaiah 40:1-5; Mark 1:1-12; December 10, 2023; Second Sunday of Advent I often like to begin my sermons with a metaphor. An allusion. A story I invented and wrote, or…
Ezekiel 34:11-16; Matthew 25:31-46; November 26, 2023; Christ the King Sunday A reminder from Ezekiel 34:16: “I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I…
Psalm 90; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; November 19, 2023; Stewardship/Commitment Sunday “Lord, you have been our dwelling, from past to coming age the same; the Mountains rise to greet your face,…
Psalm 78:1-7; November 12, 2023; 25th Sunday after Pentecost It was almost seventy years ago when Karen planted her trees. It happened on a day where she was told to…
Revelation 7:9-17; November 5, 2023; All Saints Sunday “After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and…