Sermons

A Celebration of the Life of Norman Scribner

Easter: If you are poised for resurrection, he knows. And he knows what you’ve been through to reach this place. He wants you to know that he’s here for you, to walk before you toward a new life.

The Great Vigil of Easter: By the power of God, death becomes something else: an exclamation point, the opening of new and everlasting life that exceeds our wildest imaginings.

Good Friday: We cannot become the people God is making us into unless we let down our guards and accept that life is precious precisely because it is so fragile.

Good Friday: Good Friday opens the door not only to the fullness of being human; Good Friday also opens the door to a new possibility of community and compassion with each other and the world.

Good Friday: It must confound Jesus how often we misunderstand our own longing.

Maundy Thursday: Jesus taught and modeled what that looked like to be a follower of Christ. Jesus continues to teach and model what it means to be a follower of Christ.

Lent V: We human beings are a mess. And yet we witness moments of human depth and compassion that show us what we might be on our way, with God’s help, to becoming.

Lent IV: We’re halfway to Jerusalem. I invite you at this midpoint to consider dropping some of that baggage you brought into the wilderness with you. Travel light, go dark to better find the Light in your life.

Lent III: Sometimes, we get caught up in the power of the world’s problems and forget the power of God. In times like these, we need to remember more than God’s work in nature.