Sermons from June 2025
Midwives to Justice | Week II: Shiphrah and Puah
This week in worship we move into week two of our “She Has Words” series, with two women often who are often overlooked. The story of Israel’s enslavement in Egypt and exodus out of it is such a huge story, that these two, but vitally important often get edited out of sermons and readings, so I am looking forward to focusing on them, and for some of you, maybe even making an introduction. Their names are Shiphrah and Puah, and…
Follow the Leader | Week I: Eve
This Sunday I will be preaching the message I was already in the midst of preparing last week, the first in our “She Has Words” series, which is about Eve. We’ll look at her words, but also the way in which she has been unfairly cast in Christendom, bring some correctives to that, and reimagine her. -Pastor Paul SCRIPTURE: Genesis 2:18, 21-25, 3:1-7 (NRSVUE) 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him…
And the Word Became Wind
This Sunday is our LAST Sunday of this season in the Narrative Lectionary, which means that this Sunday is Pentecost! Pentecost is a huge day in the life of The Church, so we’ll be marking it by moving backwards in the narrative to Acts 2. There is a LOT about Pentecost that many (if not most) Christians don’t realize, one thing being what the word even means. Do you know? It means “fiftieth”. Yes this holiday with this big strange name…
Grace.
This Sunday we turn the page into June, with one more week in Galatians. This week’s passage is a mixed bag for bag. There is some really great stuff in it, and then there’s some really problematic stuff. But overall it offers us an opportunity to… well… go to seminary! That’s right, this week we’re going to dig to hardcore Methodist theology! Sounds riveting, I know. But in all seriousness, it is this theology that we’ll look at on Sunday…