February 19, 2023 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Phil. 4:4-7 NRSV Joy is such a wild and elusive word that the Apostle Paul invites us not once, but twice to rejoice! He writes from the prison of his own house arrest in Rome and yet has the audacity to call us to rejoice, to not be […]

May 1, 2022 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Luke 24:36-49 God doesn’t give up on us and seeks us in life as well as in death. Jesus seeks us in the beginning, in the middle, and at the end. In this resurrection encounter, Jesus walks through walls to get to our hearts. He extends a benediction […]

April 24, 2022 | Bobby Harrison | Acts 1:1-11, Luke 24 As we begin our new sermon series — Resurrections — we do so by starting in Acts 1. We look at Jesus returning to his disciples to prove he was alive again, and to call them to bear witness known as the Body of […]

April 10, 2022 | Nicola Patton | Gen. 39, 45; Matt. 21 The story of Joseph and the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday are familiar to us. But they are not only stories about power. They are also stories about presence because before we need ruling, we need healing. The with-ness of […]