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.
August 2, 2015, The Rev. Kate Wesch preaching
Everyone has a life worthy and everyone has a gift. Stop to consider that for a moment. What is your gift? Is your gift listening, creating, building, teaching, being patient, welcoming, organizing? What is your God given gift?
July 5, 2015, Holly Boone preaching
God doesn’t ask us to be strong and perfect and whole as the world understands strength, perfection and wholeness. God asks us only to love him and to love our neighbors. We need only to seek God and allow him to be with us in our weakness. For everything else, it is a relief to remember: “My grace is sufficient.”
April 5, 2015, The Rev. Doyt L. Conn, Jr.
Resurrection is about connection; a connection that can’t be proven; it can only be owned and accepted and believed if indeed we want to know the love of God. And I can tell you this: it is worth it. It is so worth it. You want to know why so many people believe in the resurrection because the connection to the love of God is worth it!
February 4, 2015, Emily Linderman preaching
When we come into contact with our own amazement at the wisdom and power of God, are we hometown kin or are we following disciples?
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?
September 14, 2014, The Rev. Doyt Conn preaching
There are a lot of different kinds of “I’m sorry.” They run the gamut from trying to get your mom off your back, to a real, authentic desire to wipe the slate clean, to start over, and to do it differently and to be different. That is the transformational “I’m sorry” we are talking about today.