Sunday, November 1
On All Saints Sunday the sermon holds two things together: that we are already God's children even though what we will become has not yet been revealed, and that the saints who came before us showed us what that family likeness looks like. Halloween's older roots in All Hallows Tide become a way of remembering the faithful, facing our own mortality, and hoping in the resurrection.
Sunday, October 25
Jesus names love of God and neighbor as the whole law, but the sermon argues that love cannot be practiced without humility first, the willingness to put someone else above yourself, which is what reformation in the church and in us actually requires.
Sunday, October 18
Peter has to let go of what he has always assumed about who is clean and who is welcome before he can enter Cornelius's house and see God's Spirit fall on people he had kept at a distance. The sermon invites the church to the same kind of unlearning, holding old habits and assumptions loosely enough for God to do something new.
Sunday, October 11
Paul's appeal to the Corinthians for a generous collection becomes a call to build a shared world together, where giving is not about a few big donors but about an entire congregation practicing the place God is calling them toward.
Sunday, October 4
Jesus is asked whether the tax to Caesar is lawful and answers by asking whose image is on the coin, turning a question about money into a question about who we belong to. Generosity flows from bearing God's image, not from meeting a budget.
Sunday, September 27
The Christ hymn in Philippians is not just theology to admire but a pattern for how we treat one another, and the sermon asks whether what we believe about God actually shows up in how we love our neighbors.
Sunday, September 20
Israel, hungry and afraid in the wilderness, remembers Egypt as better than it was, and God answers their complaint with bread they cannot name and a command to remember it for the generations after them.
Sunday, September 13
The Israelites stand trapped between Pharaoh's army and the Red Sea, and Moses has to lead them through a place with no way around, over, or under it, because God makes a way through. The sermon asks whether we will trade the familiar bondage we know for a freedom we cannot yet see.
Sunday, September 6
Jesus teaches his followers to go directly to the person they are in conflict with, with humility, trusted counsel, and care, so that conflict becomes a place where community is repaired rather than torn apart.
Sunday, August 30
Moses, distracted by his past and his future, is stopped by a burning bush and asked to take off his shoes and his pretenses; before he can hear what God is sending him to do, he has to be honest about who he is and learn who God is.