Sermons

Pentecost V: Harvest time belongs to God alone. For now, let us appreciate those who wear plaid and grow with those with whom we differ.

Pentecost III: Illusion dangles the happy thought that the only thing better than instant gratification is constant gratification.

Pentecost III: Each of our traditions has been trying to tell us since their inceptions that diversity is a divine gift and living in fellowship is the divine way.

Trinity Sunday: God’s life has eternally been one of giving and receiving love, pouring out life, and also of receiving life and love.

Day of Pentecost: In the face of all the babbling we do at each other, all the arguing and bickering and misunderstanding we go through—God’s Spirit has been poured out to open our understanding, to draw us into communication, even communion with each other.

Easter VII: Unity, as imagined by Jesus, is wildly and diversely interdependent and not co-dependent on our insatiable hunger and thirst for sameness.

Easter VI: Even though Jesus would no longer physically be present, God would send another advocate to be with them forever.

Easter V: Jesus was the one who believed that caring for the broken and suffering is more important than keeping the laws and thinking the right thing. That’s his way, his truth, his life.

In Celebration and Thanksgiving for the Life of Dieter Heinrich Goldkuhle: Stained glass is the filter through which God’s divine light…pours down from heaven into our places of worship, dazzling our eyes and filling our hearts with joy and wonder.

Easter III: It’s easy to get paralyzed, but Jesus has a habit of just showing up and reminding us that no matter what we face, we never face it alone.