A sermon preached on May 31, 2020 – Pentecost Sunday – based upon Acts 2:1-21 entitled, “We Need to Open Ourselves Up to the Experience of Awe in these Troubled Times” These are challenging times. The Pandemic that has taken more than 100,000 lives, and now the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, […]
A sermon preached May 24th, 2020 based upon John 17:1-11, entitled, “What Inspires a Parade in the Midst of an Epidemic.” Last Tuesday there was a birthday parade for Doris. Two fire trucks and maybe sixty people from the church in cars with decorations, balloons and signs, with much honking and shouting “We love you, […]
A sermon preached on May 17th, 2020 based upon John 14:15-18 entitled “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Thank God for the Advocate.” Once more we find ourselves in the upper room as Jesus prepares his disciples for his departure by his death. He has lovingly washed the feet of each one of […]
A sermon preached on May 10th, 2020 – Mothers’ Day – based upon John 14:1-13a, entitled, “Becoming Comfortable with Uncertainty; Resting in the Expansive Love of God.” I continue to be struck by the way the Gospel readings speak with a particular poignancy in the present context of the epidemic and the feelings it evokes […]
A sermon preached on May 3rd, 2020 based upon John 21:1-13 entitled, “Surprised by Grace in the Midst of a Quarantine Funk.” This morning we have yet another story of an appearance of Jesus after his resurrection, one that comes from 21st chapter of John’s Gospel. There is something peculiar going on here though because […]
The sermon preached on April 26th, 2020 based upon Luke 24:13 – 35 entitled, “Coming to Understand the Stories of Our Lives through the Light of the One Who Walks Beside Us.” The four Gospels all tell the story of Jesus life, death and resurrection – but of all the Gospel writers, Luke is far […]
A sermon preached on April 19th, 2020 based upon John 20:19 – 31, entitled “More Wisdom for Living through the Pandemic from the Story of Jesus’ Appearance to Disciples Huddled in Fear behind Locked Doors.” So we continue the story in the Gospel of John. You will recall what happened last week – how Mary […]
The sermon for April 12th, 2020 – Easter Sunday – in the midst of the Covid-19 quarantine – based upon John 20:1-18 entitled “The Risen Christ in an Unfair World” It is striking that in all four Gospels it is women who are the first witnesses to the empty tomb — that Jesus was alive […]
A sermon preached on Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020 – the fourth Sunday of live streamed worship because of the Pandemic – based upon Philippians 2:1-11, and entitled, Midway through the Gospels, Jesus makes it clear to his disciples that although he is the messiah sent from God to save the people, he is not […]
A sermon preached on March 29th, 2020, the second Sunday in which our worship was live streamed because of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Rather than read scripture, I told the story that Matthew tells in the 14th chapter of his Gospel. Chapter 14 of Matthew’s Gospel spoke to me this week as we find ourselves dealing […]