Sermons

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.

Pentecost III: Should she be punished this evening because she’s crossed the line of social propriety or is her extravagance a sign of her deep hunger for life-giving and life-saving and life-transforming grace?

Pentecost: Church is meant to be a place of wind and fire, where we experience a Spirit of oneness when we gather here and are sent out from here to be healers, binders, reconcilers.

Easter VII: Every relationship has some deepening, growing, expanding, solidifying, and blossoming to do. Under the sway of this prayer, no relationship is allowed to be static.

Today we are giving thanks for the life of a woman who over nearly a century became an unstoppable force of salt and light for our country.

Easter III: We live for those moments when that mysterious mix of practice and love reaches a certain point that we call Spirit.…We call those moments holy. We call that point life-giving.

Easter II: We are more focused on busy work, doing logical tasks that seemingly justify our sense of salvation, rather than sitting at the feet of Jesus, participating in the presence of God.