Sermons

Finding Life

This Sunday is Palm Sunday so we will be moving backwards in the Gospel of John to accommodate for that. As with so much of John, the Palm Sunday passage is pretty different in that what surrounds it is not Jesus turning over tables in the temple (that was in John 2) but the raising of Lazarus. We’ll dig into it all and how it all connects to one of John’s primary themes: Life! -Pastor Paul

Not These Sheep

This Sunday we’ll take a look at John’s account of when Jesus arrested. It, like so much of the Gospel of John, is rich with meaning and connections to other places in John’s Gospel and the Scriptures as a whole. -Pastor Paul

Be Human

This Sunday we keep plodding through the Gospel of John with the famous story of the resurrection of Jesus dear friend, Lazarus. This is a long and full story, rich in symbolism and the complexities of life, death, friendship, grief, anger, and love. In that sense, it is deeply, deeply human. We’ll see what bubbles out of it for us this week! -Pastor Paul

They Know His Voice

This Sunday we take a big leap in the narrative, moving all the way from John 4 to John 10! Furthermore, this Sunday is before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. We once again will not have an Ash Wednesday service, as this Wednesday is a third Wednesday and therefore the night of our community meal, which we thought was more important and felt we could not effectively do both. So I will be addressing some Ash Wednesday/Lenten themes on Sunday…

Life Cycle

On Sunday, we will move backwards a bit in the narrative. We missed the Nicodemus story a couple weeks ago because we needed to leave room to collectively grieve and lament, and we skipped over the story of The Woman at the Well last week. But it all kind of works out, because there is a way in which these two stories are meant to be compared and contrasted, so I will do just that in the reflection on Sunday…

Bone to Its Bone

We are headed into the 2nd week of Advent this Sunday with the very rich vision of Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones. Like last week’s text, it may seem an odd Advent text, but as you look at it, it makes a lot of sense. It’s quite a vivid vision he has, and I look forward to unpacking it with y’all and seeing what Ezekiel might have for us this week. -Pastor Paul

Deus Ex Machina

This Sunday is the first Sunday in Advent, which is the beginning of the Church Year, so, I guess “Happy New Year” is also in order! We will take a look at a somewhat famous story in the Bible, that of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace. Kind of a strange one for the first Sunday in Advent, but it’ll work. -Pastor Paul SCRIPTURE: Daniel 3:8-28 (NRSVUE) 8 Accordingly, at this time certain Chaldeans came forward and denounced the…