Sermons from November 2025
What Do You Fear? – In the Time of Herod, We Long for God to Break In
Our Advent theme this year is “What Do You Fear? Insisting on Hope this Advent.” We’ll be exploring themes of fear and hope, examining our relationship with fear as well as the ways our faith invites us, in the midst of all things, to insist on hope.
With Thanksgiving
Today we focus on living a life with thanksgiving…in and through all things. With deep thanksgiving, we bring our gifts together, trusting that God will bless and use our combined resources to energize and extend our mission and ministry at PB UMC and to the community around us.
Keep On Keeping On
Today we ponder words from 2 Thessalonians that encourage us, among other things, to keep on keeping on in a life of following Christ… on the days when it’s easy and on the days when it’s hard.
A Whole New World
Today’s passage will surely make many of us say, “Hmmmmm.” It begins with an antagonistic question from some of the religious leaders about Jewish customs related to marriage and the resurrection. Seemingly far from the realm of our lives, Jesus’ answer opens a place and space to ponder this life in relation to the nature of the next.
Birds of a Feather
Today we come alongside Zacchaeus (up in a tree) to reflect on unlikely saints in our personal and collective stories. We also honor the saints who have died in the last year, giving thanks for their lives and legacies.