Sermon Archive
The Bible’s Happy Ending
Text: Revelation 21:1–7, 22–27, 22:1–5 I have been to two weddings in two weeks. (One of the happy couples is right here in our midst!) So it is no wonder that imagery that what spoke to me most poignantly from John’s vision in Revelation 21 and 22 is that of a...
Sealed, Saved and Suffering
Revelation 7:1-11 The first words of our scripture from Revelation 7, are ‘After this…” so we can tell that we’re kind of in the middle of something. In the middle of something big, in fact, so let’s start with some context. This moment in the throne room...
Write This
Text: Revelation 2:1–7 & 3:1 –22 A good portion of this service was spent in small group discussion of the text; that portion is not included in the audio recording. The Churches Major metropolitan centers May think of them as obscure because they’re not thriving...
The Sound of Resistance is Singing with Joy
Text: Revelation 5:1-14 I truly hope that this week’s sermon will feel like somewhat of a reprieve from the terrifying beasts and somewhat sobering message of last week. We’re jumping around in the book of Revelation a bit but I zoomed in on the beast chapters...
Faithfulness and Endurance to Face the Beast
Text: Revelation 13:1-10 and 17:11-18 There have been a few times recently when I’ve had a kind of experience of dissonant realization. It’s almost like I’m seeing myself or my surroundings from a distance, going about normal day to day activities. Just the...
Apocalypse Revealed
Text: Revelation 1:1-20 Revelation has been coopted. For the past hundred years or so it’s been taken by fundamentalists and far right evangelicals to espouse a notion that it’s all about actual events that we are even now in the midst of. I have friends who...
What Will Prevent Us?
Text: Acts 8:26-39 This passage isn’t the text assigned for this day by our lectionary. The Narrative Lectionary wrapped up at Pentecost. But since we did that series on discernment I’ve been dipping back into the Acts passages that we skipped and I was...
A God Who Comes to Us Walking
-- Genesis 3:8 8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Luke 24:13-15 13 Now on that same day two of them...
Disciple, Citizen
Acts 25:1-12 Those of you who have joined this year-long read-though of the book of Acts might remember this story. And even if you don’t, you might at least remember all the times that we noticed Paul calling attention to his citizenship. We read this one not...
Holy Freedom
Pictured above: Pastor Rachael (center, holding her child) at her ordination service, surrounded by friends, colleagues and members of Community of Hope. -- I’m Rachael, she/her, CoH queer church plant, these are my kids, thank you for hosting us! Pentecost is my...