Sermons

Easter V: There is, we now know, a more excellent way to live, to hope all things, to endure all things.

Celebration and Thanksgiving for the Life of Jack Kemp

Celebration and Thanksgiving for the Life of Jack Kemp: The question that comes quickly to our lips is the question that was asked by Job in that oldest of old books, which lies deep in the nature of our own humanity: If a man die shall he live again?

Easter IV: Christianity proclaims a God who is unbounded Love, whose love for everyone is literally beyond our imagining.

Easter III: So what lessons can we learn from the lilies? … In the bleakest of times they break forth out of frozen soil and bloom triumphantly as they reveal signs of new life.

Easter II: In our more honest moments, I suspect all of us want to see and touch Jesus.

Easter Day: If the tomb isn’t the end, if God will stop literally at nothing, even death, to keep working on this frightened, self-absorbed world, then the only choice is to live big, bold, risky lives.

Easter Day: The Resurrection of Jesus can also become your own personal resurrection; a resurrection of new life, new hope, and healing.

Good Friday :...the truth is Jesus is our King, our King who calls us to live a radical lifestyle in opposition to terrorism, a king who pleads with us to banish war, a king who calls us to righteousness, a king who challenges us to wave an olive branch.

Maundy Thursday: In the rare, timeless act of foot washing Jesus demonstrates both symbolically and literally how he commands us to treat one another.