Sermon Archive
Getting on God’s Wavelength
Text: 1 Samuel 3 We learned something about sound in our Lesson for All ages. How we can pass a message from one cup to another because of the vibration of the string and the cup. And we know from the study of the human body and sound waves that our ears also...
Building Courage for Non-Cooperation
This presentation and information are borrowed from Mennonite Action and Freedom Trainers Jesus' parable from Matthew 25 is a reminder of the call to Jesus' followers to offer care, compassion and justice to those most vulnerable. His ministry demonstrated his...
Turning Toward Enough
Text: Exodus 16:1-18 Once again, God is paying attention to a moaning and groaning and complaining people. God is compassionate and patient and promises abundance, saying, "I will make bread rain down." Now, the image that first came to mind for me was a book...
How To Pay Attention
Text: Exodus 2:23-25; 3:1-15; 4:10-17 I think many of you know that for the past 6 or so years I've been on the Pastoral Leadership Team of our conference. Our role is to discern and hold ministry credentials for the pastors and other ministers (like chaplains...
God, Uh, Finds a Way
Text: Genesis 27:1-4, 15-23; 28:10-17 In the 1993 classic movie, Jurassic park there is a scene in which the Dr. Ian Malcom, played by the iconic Jeff Goldblum, says a line that has resonated through the ages. Ian Malcolm: If there's one thing that the history...
I’m Here for You
Text: Genesis 21:1-3, 22:1-14 LISTEN HERE My friends, this is kind of an awful story. Unfortunately there are a lot of kind of awful stories in the Bible. Stories where people are hurt. Stories where people and even God do things that we can't quite parse out. And in...
The News from Camp Camrec
Camp Camrec Director Brisa Peacock shares stories and experiences from the summer youth programs and invites us to continue to engage with Camrec's mission to nurture the faith of children and adults and to care for all of God's creation. --
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...