Harrowing Of Hell

Category: Waiting

Let the Lie Die

Sermon | August 21, 2016

August 21, 2016, The Rev. Doyt L. Conn, Jr. preaching

This is the nature of lies put upon us. We come to own them and let them grow in our souls. They become like the air we breathe. They are like a frog in the pot of boiling water. They become our truths, and they bind us, and we don’t even know it. They start with Satan, the Father of Lies, but then they grow as we own them and nurture them and in some cases we come to believe they are the best thing about us.

Really Real Moments and Small Groups

Sermon | January 25, 2015

January 25, 2015, The Rev. Doyt L. Conn preaching

I’d like you to consider today a moment in time when your life made perfect sense: a time when it all came together, when you felt alive and useful and connected, and there was purpose not just in what you were doing, but who you were being. Think of a time like that. I call these Really Real Moments.

Where God Dwells: The Virgin Birth to the Incarnation

Sermon | December 21, 2014

December 21, 2014, The Rev. Kate Wesch preaching

Ten years ago, I was in the middle of my seminary education. I was studying theology and hermeneutics, singing in the choir, and washing dishes in the refectory for minimum wage. We gathered in the chapel every day at noon for worship, students, faculty, and staff praying together as a community. Also during that time, I was struggling to work out issues of faith, personal belief, and conviction.

“Help, Thanks, Wow”

Sermon | January 20, 2013

January 20, 2013 The Rev Kate Wesch preaching

It was late and we were both tired, but I knew we might be there for hours, so on the way out the door I grabbed a book. I was reading Anne Lamott’s new book, a slim volume, called, “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.” In her typical style of lengthy run-on sentences filled with self-deprecating humor, raw honest emotion, and startling insight, Lamott focuses in on these three repeating themes of prayer: Help, Thanks, Wow.

Weaving Waiting Back into Our Lives

Sermon | December 2, 2012

December 2, 2012, The Rev Doy Conn preaching

Waiting, I think, makes an event all the sweeter. Waiting increases our sense of thanksgiving and gratitude. There was a day when waiting was more thoroughly woven into the rhythms of life. We waited for crops to come in. We waited for snow to melt and the salmon to run. We waited for fruits or vegetables to be in season. We waited to have enough money to buy something we couldn’t afford. We even waited for the appropriate night to watch our favorite TV show. Now we just Tevo it. Now we write the waiting out of the story of our lives and I sense we are diminished because of it.