Sermons from December 2025

Sermons from December 2025

What Do You Fear? – When You’re Afraid, Give Me Your Hand

On this fourth Sunday in Advent, we come alongside Joseph, who is pivotal to the story of Jesus, God made flesh, but rarely centered. What does the story of Joseph teach us about the divine as it comes in the midst of our hopes and fears? What does it mean to extend and receive a hand?

What Do You Fear? – Even in our Fear, We are Called Forward

Today is the third Sunday of Advent and we continue to explore the intersections of our fear and hope. Our passages for this Sunday invite us to come alongside two young people to wrestle with questions that might be familiar. Can I do this? Do I have what it takes? Will I be all alone? Am I enough?

What Do You Fear? – When We’re Running Out of Hope, God is at Work

As is our practice on the first Sunday of the month, today’s sermon is a first-person narrative. This week we enter into the world of John the Baptist… so certain at times in his life, and full of doubt and questions at others. What struggles companion John the Baptist in his ministry? And how did Jesus offer guidance and reassurance when John seemed to be running low on hope?