Our Everyday Cross

Sermon | September 3, 2023

To watch the sermon, click here. Today’s story has me thinking about the cross. It is ubiquitous in our lives. Here in church, the cross is everywhere: we make the sign of the cross before the Gospel is read; before we settle in to hear the sermon; before and after we take communion; during the

God’s Got This!

Sermon | August 27, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. It is good to be back after summer travels. I missed you. I missed opening my Bible and thinking about what you and I were going to talk about in the sermon Sunday. Writing a sermon is both completely delightful and utterly painful, because it requires digging into the

We All Could Use A Little Mercy Now

Sermon | August 20, 2023

Click here to watch the sermon in full You often hear it said that the only constant in life is change. The corollary to that of course is that a fundamental characteristic of being human is resistance to change. We don’t like it. We are uncomfortable with it. We don’t want to go from the

Truly, You Are the Son of God

Sermon | August 13, 2023

Click here to watch the sermon Years ago, when my husband Dave was in grad school, we spent our two-week summer vacation visiting his parents in Columbia, Missouri. One of Dave’s brothers happened to be in town, and one beautiful afternoon, they went out golfing. At the end of the round, they discovered that they’d

The Transfiguration: Jesus’ Humanity

Sermon | August 6, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. What a day for a hike, huh? By now the disciples are used to Jesus going off on his own, to pray or whatever (which shows definitively that Jesus was an introvert, right?). But this time he’s changing it up a bit, taking three close friends with him, up

The Lord is in this Place

Sermon | July 23, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. How does God bring heaven to earth, and earth to heaven? In our reading from Genesis this morning, we have the famous story of Jacob’s ladder. The context: Isaac and Rebekah have two sons: Esau the elder twin, has been a good kid, but Jacob is a bad boy

To Be A Disciple of Christ

Sermon | June 25, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. I remember a picture that hung on the wall of one of the Sunday School classrooms in the church where I grew up. It was a pastoral scene. Jesus was seated on a large stone beneath a tree, a tree unlike any I was familiar with in West Virginia.

Faith in Jesus in an Instant

Sermon | June 11, 2023

Today’s story brings to life an image of how God moves in the world. Actual, physical movement. The movement in today’s scene is so vivid, perhaps all of us worshiping in this church and online can try to picture it, as if we were dropped right into this vibrant scene. We can imagine: Jesus moving

The Good Shepherd and the Gate

Sermon | April 30, 2023

I love it when Jesus speaks clearly. I enjoy his parables too, with their complexity and their layers and their occasional cryptic-ness. As Jesus followers, we know that ANYTHING he says is going to be awesome. He is JESUS!! But when he is clear in what he is saying, there is nothing like it. It

Category: God’s Nature & Mercy