Sermons

Christmas Day: I think it’s no coincidence that God chose the shepherds to begin to tell the story.

Christmas Eve: The Holy Land that we remember in our prayers, hymns, and Christmas carols is called holy because the land still belongs exclusively to the God who created it and who continues to hold it in trust for all the children of Abraham.

Christmas Eve: Joy is not the same as happiness, which is a fleeting sense that things are great at this moment, or that you’re having fun.

Advent IV: The fact is that God is most often experienced in the context of the ordinary.

Advent III: For all of the ways we have stuffed our lives until things are spilling over the rim, the deepest yearnings of our heart – for love, for belonging, for peace, for a just world for everyone, for a purpose in our lives – often go unmet.

Advent I: Amazing things can happen when you open the door and let the light of Christ into your life.… Myriad ways for us to reflect the light of Christ to a hurting, broken, and suffering world.

Thanksgiving: I’m so glad that you are here this morning and that we’re all gathered together to lift up, in our own way, in our own experience, our gratefulness to God for all of our blessings.

Christ the King Sunday: At the foundation of our faith are not rules and obligations, or guilt or fear, but a foundational amazement at all that we have been given, and an unstoppable desire to offer thanks and praise to the Giver.

Pentecost XXV: As Christians, our response to the chaos that has engulfed our cities, this nation, and the world is the response of those who, with prophetic zeal and stubborn determination, proclaim and then work for the justice and righteousness of God to be an actuality in the lives of all people.

All Saints Day: The only answer to our political problems is a vision of a common good, a willingness to respect and listen to one another, a readiness to make sacrifices for the health of the country and the well-being of the most vulnerable.