The Golden Record and the Granary of Hope

Sermon | December 7, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. In the late 1970s, NASA was preparing the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft to explore the outer planets and then continue drifting into interstellar space. A few visionaries led by Carl Sagan proposed including a message from humanity: a kind of cosmic greeting card, for any intelligent life

When Heaven Touches Earth

Sermon | November 30, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. One of my best friends in seminary was a guy named Patrick who grew up in small town Mississippi. Patrick is loud, charismatic, and always funny, especially when telling stories about his childhood. He had lots of good stories, but the best ones were about his grandmother. I don’t

Remembering is why Christ is King

Sermon | November 23, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. The calendar we Christians follow is not random. It begins with the longing of Advent, that season of holy desire for the world at its best. Then Christmas, incarnation, God alive in the world. Epiphany follows, it is the dark season lit by Christ’s light, guiding our actions in

Forged in the Fire

Sermon | August 17, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. “I came to bring fire to the earth and how I wish it were already kindled!” This is not your Sunday School Jesus in today’s passage from Luke’s gospel. This is firebrand Jesus, take action Jesus. Last Christmas, the staff had a White Elephant Gift Exchange. I managed to

The Power of Joy

Sermon | August 3, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. Today I want to talk about joy, and where we truly find it; because there are a lot of tough, troubling things going on in the world and joy is the power that provides the equanimity and endurance to face the stress and suffering and, indeed, prevail over evil.

Peace to this House!

Sermon | July 6, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. This sermon is about being people of peace. As we navigate each day, we are faced with countless decisions. We have to decide how we are going to behave, what we are going to say and do, and when to remain silent. This sermon is going to explore how

Hope in a Post-Truth World

Sermon | June 15, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. Last Sunday, I preached about being a Christian in a post-truth world: which I describe as a world distorted by lies and half-truths, where opinion masquerades as facts, where personal power parades as universal principle, where algorithms claim objectivity, rather than the preference of programmers. And I suggested that

Optimism in a Locked Room

Sermon | April 27, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. I find it interesting how and when holy people choose to die. I remember Mother Teresa dying a few days after Princess Diana died, as if to slip undercover into eternity. Pope Francis chose the day after Easter, so as not to distract, I suspect, from the glory of

Easter is Despair Disrupted

Sermon | April 20, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. Good morning. Happy Easter. I’m delighted to see you. Today, it is my intent that when we all walk out of here—no matter what burden we’ve walked in with, no matter what sense of despair we’re lugging around—we leave as people of hope. That we leave as people who

Category: Hope & Resurrection