June 2, 2024 | Nicola Patton | Acts 2:41-47 NRSV After Pentecost comes ordinary life in community among the believers. And within that community, we find unity that celebrates diversity. The differences among believers are not prerequisites for belonging but unique aspects that contribute to the beloved community. The group had everything in common […]
April 28, 2024 | Bobby Harrison | Deuteronomy 38-40 This sermon looks at the relationship between death and resurrection, particularly by looking at the end of the life of Moses. In his story, we see ways we may be led to resist death alongside paths of receiving death. And this just may inform how […]
April 7, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Luke 24:36-43 After the revelation at the table at the end of the road to Emmaus, Jesus again appears to his disciples and introduces himself saying, “Peace be with you”. Through a wordcloud exercise, Pastora Inés invites our congregations to a communal reflection of Scripture asking what […]
March 31, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Luke 24:28-35 After the resurrection, Jesus goes searching for his friends and listens to their dashed hopes on the road to Emmaus. The disciples don’t recognize him until he takes the bread, gives thanks, and shares it. Resurrection is a road and a ritual where Jesus’ presence […]
November 12, 2023 | Bobby Harrsion | John 11:33-44 As Jesus makes his way to the stone-cold tomb where Lazarus is sealed shut, we’re invited to see the “tomb seasons” in our own lives. The spaces and places where we find ourselves in lament and loss. And where we ultimately long for God to comfort […]
April 16, 2023 | Bobby Harrison | John 20-21, Luke 24 Jesus’ post-Resurrection life is filled with such simple but profoundly meaningful moments of reconnecting and reconciling with those closest to him. Let’s look at three vignettes of these sacred stories together. And then remember and recall the resurrection stories the Spirit is writing […]
April 9, 2023 | Bobby Harrison | John 20:1-18 In this Easter sermon, we followed the footsteps of Mary Magdalene as she bravely stayed at the tomb, even as others had fled. We also took note of Mary’s courage in looking into the tomb and we’re invited to look into the tombs of our […]
November 13, 2022 | Bobby Harrison | Acts 13:50-51 We are called to live in between the dust in this life—for dust is where we are from and where are headed. But dust that has been thrown our way in this world is not the life we’ve been promised by God. So in this message, […]
October 9, 2022 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde & Bobby Harrison | Acts 9 In this sermon, we look at two vignettes in Acts 9. And in so doing, we find disciples of Jesus showing us glimpses of the Kingdom among us. We are called to the hard and holy work of advocacy by the witness of […]
May 22, 2022 | Sandy Lee Schaup | John 21:1-4 Even after Jesus’ resurrection, the disciples aren’t yet OK as seen in their hiding and in their returning to fish. They seem to be in process, maybe still in pain and confusion. Jesus does the unexpected and comes TO them and serves them and rebuilds […]