Sermons

Pentecost XVI: We have received in our faith just one thing: an invitation to relationship. Relationship with God and with all of God’s people.

Pentecost XV: We Christians believe that God cares about our work, our vocation or calling, and that in some way God’s purposes are involved in the work we do.

Pentecost XIV: To understand God’s reconciling work we have to spend some uncomfortable time at dinner with Jesus.

Pentecost XIII: Jews call the Sabbath “the crown of creation” because on that day the gift of all the rest of the week is to be celebrated in gratitude and peace.

Pentecost XII: Where we expect the Prince of Peace we find the prince of division; instead of cool breezes we find promises of fire; instead of peace at home we hear of families broken apart. What is going on here?

Pentecost X: Obituaries are the world’s score card. Eulogies are God’s score card. Most of us have a tendency to spend more time and energy building obituaries than eulogies, but in the end it is the eulogies that have the most meaning.

Pentecost IX: When the cravings of our appetites and the excesses of our desires are literally making ourselves and God’s creation sick, we need to take an accounting of what fields we are searching in for the meanings and values of our lives.

Pentecost VIII: Sometimes what it takes for me to break out of my own little pity party is to go help someone, and the peace of God is the result.

Pentecost VII: The measure of our faith is where our feet go, what our hearts do, where our money flows, what fills our time, what makes us agonize. Understanding faith isn’t all that hard. Living it often is.

Pentecost VI: In hope, we can now often recognize God’s image in someone who is not in our image, whose language, experience, faith, and ideals are different from ours.