Category: Gratitude

July 27, 2018. Kevin Mesher preaching

July 1, 2018, The Rev. Ruth Anne Garcia preaching

August 20, 2017, The Rev. Todd Foster preaching

October 2, 2016, The Rev. Doyt L. Conn, Jr. preaching

You have a mustard seed in your shoe. There was probably a moment when you felt is unearthed, but whether you feel it today or not, matters not. It remains there. It is hasn’t left. It can’t. It never will. God planted it long, long ago, at that moment when God thought you into being, even before placing you in a womb.

October 25, 2015, Kevin Mesher preaching

It was then my turn to kneel at the rail and as Father Stewart ever so gently placed the host on my tongue, the whole convoluted and circuitous path of my spiritual search resolved itself instantaneously. The accordion of time and of memory whistled out its excess and I was able to see that every event that brought me to this point in time was all part of the ecstatic racket of the procession of Jesus.

January 4, 2015, The Rev. Kate Wesch preaching

Words have tremendous power and in the kingdom of God they stick and they stay. The internet is a good metaphor. Whatever we write or blog or post on the internet becomes a live entity that stays there forever. Our words usually fade away like the dawn because they are unremarkable, but you never know when that one thing will stick in someone’s mind forever because it is inspirational, or hurtful, or helpful. So what about God’s Word?

October 19, 2014, The Rev. Kate Wesch preaching

Perhaps some of you have had a knock-down, cataclysmic conversion experience that turned your life upside down, but that’s not the norm. It doesn’t happen just because we want it to, or because we will it to. God doesn’t work that way. God’s communication with us isn’t for our entertainment; it’s for our souls. I’m willing to bet that someone here today has had God speak to them. Some of you have encountered God in a real, almost tangible way. Some of you think that sounds crazy. I believe that God still speaks to us. God sends angels. They may not be dressed in white with a halo and wings, but they are angels none the less. And yet, these sorts of direct experiences of God are the exception, not the rule.

September 28, 2014, The Rev. Doyt Conn preaching

Imagine a world where no one had the capacity to understand things from someone else’s point of view. Imagine the chaos. It might even be terrifying. And yet, here is the reality: No one can really understand something fully from another person’s point of view. No one can climb into another person’s mind and think from another person’s context. It can’t happen. We are not designed for that. So where does that leave us with chaos? Is our destiny only tragedy like the Book of Judges? What do you think?