Category: Sermons

Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return. In a few moments, these words will be spoken over you as I ash your foreheads or your hands. Tonight, I have one question for us: What might it mean for us to receive these words as a blessing, as a word from God meant [...]

We like to think of God calling us as something intimate, as something gentle, as something comforting. We have all seen the Hallmark cards with God's words to Jeremiah: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.” We long for these words of consolation to [...]

The forces of nature regularly remind us of the danger of water. In the past decade or so, we have seen major tsunamis devastate India, Indonesia, Sir Lanka, and Japan. Closer to home, we have faced two of the most damaging hurricanes in modern human history. The people of Louisiana and New England know quite [...]

Guide us, God of love, by your Word and Holy Spirit, that in your light, we may see light, in your truth, find freedom, and in you, discover peace. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen   Today we celebrate Epiphany Sunday – the feast day which celebrates that God the Son appeared as a human [...]

Last week during children's story, Pam told the story of Jane Addams – the pioneer in American settlement reform, in promoting children's health and wellbeing, an advocate for women's rights and the wonderful disruptor for peace. But what really struck me during Pam's story was how it was one experience which happened when she was [...]

We live in a state of constant crisis. Every day we seem to hear about some new threat which potentially could unravel our lives and our world. Over the past few years, it's become clear that our society need crisis. It craves it. For our society has learned that it can mobilize the politics of [...]