Sermons

The first reading was not recorded.  Sorry.  The recording begins with the special music. Psalm 20; 1 Samuel 9:1-10, 15-21, 10:1a June 20, 2021 The beginning of Israel’s Kings I do not remember the day that I realized my parents were only human, that they did not have...

Psalm 2; 1 Samuel 8:1-20 June 13, 2021 To whom do we look for our help and salvation? I’m not sure if you have been paying much attention to the news these days – of course, there is so much news that it is hard to take it all in, but right now there is a big push to...

1 Samuel 1:1-22; 1 Samuel 3:1-14 June 6, 2021 Being a Called People/A Journey into the Samuel books Have you ever gotten a call that you were not expecting?  I have a feeling you probably have.  Sometimes they are good surprises like a new baby coming into the family;...

Psalm 139:1-18; Ephesians 4:1-6, 25-32 May 23, 2021 Living into the Body of Christ The body is a good thing… until it isn’t.  That is a fair bit of an oversimplification, but George Burns captured some of the spirit of this when he shared in his later years that “When...

Judges 7:1-7; Acts 10 May 9, 2021 Identifying God work in the world   I want you to think back to May 9, 2017.  What did you do that day exactly four years ago?  I am not going to give you anything else about the day – not the day of the week, the weather, any...

1 Kings 18:20-40; 1 John 5:1-8 May 2, 2021 What does it mean that we can conquer the world with Jesus? Back in 1999 when I was working in a hospital in India as an exchange chaplain, I found a painting hanging on the wall of a hospital that vividly depicts the scene...

John 10:11-18; 1 John 3:16-24 April 25, 2021 Following the Good Shepherd as Good Sheep I believe that it has come up before that I have always been fascinated with words and am a “word nerd.”  I took Latin through my grade school years and majored in Greek and Latin...

Isaiah 53:1-5, 10-12; 1 John 3:1-11 April 18, 2021 Receiving Christ’s rightness in a broken world Believe it or not, this sermon is not a tribute to that significant person in your life who is always right.  You know, that person who knows best and is always right and...