Sermons

God wants nothing less than to come and abide in your heart. You have been made in the image and likeness of God. God loves you. Jesus’ real concern is read more…

Sometimes we have to struggle to understand the meaning of our gospel readings.  Sometimes a parable may make sense, if one considers its ancient context.  But it still may not read more…

We humans are willful, errant creatures. God has given us the Ten Commandments as signposts to guide us toward unity, harmony and peace in our relationships with God and with read more…

Are we faithful or willful? We listen to learn what God would have us do, but we are always tempted to do what we would rather do than the hard read more…

We have lost so much in this year of pandemic: great souls have left this earth; strangers and neighbors have been taken from us. We ache to blame someone and read more…

We are in the midst of an upheaval of all we know: the Covid-19 pandemic, unprecedented wildfire devastation, overlapping hurricane destruction, deep-seated political animosity, outcries against racial injustice; the list read more…

God shielded the children of Israel at the Passover to save them. Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us to accomplish our salvation. God’s almighty arms embrace, protect and uphold read more…

When we’re feeling lost or helpless, we must resist the urge to dwell in pain and not in hope. Jesus reminds of us of what is possible when we lean read more…

God is at work at all times and in all places, often working through us to accomplish divine purposes. Our faith is a response to God’s abiding presence and action, read more…

We are blessed as we are reconciled and blessed as we seek reconciliation. God calls the stranger–the outsider–to welcome them to the community of Beloved Children, and God calls us read more…

In the midst of all that is asked of us in this moment, the most important thing any of us can do is keep our eyes firmly fixed on Jesus, read more…

God’s grace, when mixed with human activity, is able to produce great fruit. Both the grace, and human activity are necessary: grace perfects nature, but without a nature to perfect, read more…