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All God’s Critters

In honor of the Blessing of the Animals, today’s sermon helps us see the world through the eyes of Balaam’s donkey.  What does she have to tell us about how God works through all of God’s creation?  

What You Can Do With Crumbs

Today we wrestle with one of the most challenging passages in Christian scripture:  Jesus’ encounter with a Canaanite woman who, on behalf of her daughter, begs for help and mercy. What might this passage teach us about God and ourselves?

Follow the Leader

This week, we welcome Rev. Dale Blackford as our guest preacher. Dale says, “To follow the leader, one must first have faith in the leader and second, be close enough to be led. Jesus did not ask us to worship him, but he did request that we follow him. What does that look like?”

A Joyful Noise, Singing Our Faith

This week we’re celebrating Gospel Music Sunday! Join us as we make a joyful noise and sing our faith, taking a few moments along the way to explore the history of Gospel Music, its distinctive sound, and the faith it expresses. Does Gospel Music set your toes a-tapping? This is the Sunday for you! Does Gospel Music sound like fingernails on a chalkboard? This is the Sunday for you, too!

Not for the Faint of Heart

This week’s gospel reading draws us into the account of Jesus walking on water to the disciples in a storm tossed boat. What was going on with Peter? Why did he challenge Jesus in the first place? And what did Jesus mean when, safely back in the boat, he spoke to Peter saying, “Faint-heart, what got into you?”

Daybreak

As is our Communion Sunday tradition, the sermon this week will be a first person story. This Sunday we’ll spend time with Jacob from Hebrew scripture. He was a true character with a story to tell!

Old and New

We are deep into a section of Matthew’s gospel that offers us a party of parables! This Sunday we’ll look for God in common things like seeds, yeast, fields, pearls and more. How do these ordinary things reveal the extraordinary aspects of the Divine?

To Weed or Not to Weed

This week our scripture passage is the parable of the wheat and the weeds. Who wants a weedy garden? And shouldn’t we pluck out the weeds – catch them early – when we see them?

A Sower Went Out to Sow

This week our scripture passage is Jesus’ Parable of the Sower.  It’s one of Jesus’ many parables that challenges us to consider how God’s goodness and grace get planted in the world and when/how/why the things of God grow!  What seeds need to be sown?  What difference does the soil make?  And what qualities are called for in the Sower?  

Life Long Learning

“To what can I compare this generation?” the text begins. Through the lens of a first-person second career Religion Major, this text is opened up with the hopes of living more faithfully, seeing more clearly, loving God more deeply all while getting an “A” on Life’s Midterm Exam. In Matthew is Jesus really asking us this question now? Today? At the same time our country is celebrating her semi quincentennial? Our work, our Life Long work is answering this question.