Rev. Joe preaches on the Golden Calf. We may not have created a God like the one we have, but it's a good thing. We don't have the power and creativity to imagine or create a God that loves us like this.

Rev. Joe preaches on how the Passover Seder and Communion both tell an essential story of faith, and how food is so much more than fuel for our bodies: food is culture, faith, family, and love. It is at the table that we hear the storied of God's power to deliver and save us.

If you think your family is dysfunctional, read the Old Testament! Rev. Joe summarizes the story of Joseph, shows how God can redeem our bonds of humanity, and compares sibling rivalry to race relations in America. We know which brother has been wronged, sold into slavery, and it is only when we have a conversation with confession and humility that we can work on reconciliation.

The second in our narrative lectionary series, Rev. Joe preaches on the story of Abram being shown the stars and promised greatness. Joe recounts the last time he truly saw the stars, and how God's light is always shining this way, we just rarely see it due to anxieties and distractions.

Rev. Joe kicks off another program year of the Narrative Lectionary with the story of Adam and Eve, and how the forbidden fruit has caused alienation and estrangement in our hearts, and how God's Grace can overcome our separation and reunite us with God and others. John Dominic Crossan and Paul Tillich get well deserved credit on this one.

Rev. Joe preaches a Labor Day Weekend sermon on slavery and how we can see God in the stories of ordinary women and men in their struggle for freedom, and the ways they banded together to build a more just future.

Part one of a sermon series on prehistoric ritual practices, focused on ceremonial burial and evidence of belief in an afterlife (or something beyond life). Long before mastadons and sabretooth tigers went extinct, at the beginning of the last ice age, humans and neanderthals were burying their dead with belongings.

Rev. Joe shares the African proverb "If you can talk, you can sing" and how he went from a skeptic to a believer in the maxim. God has put music inside us, and singing is more accessible than you may think.

Rev. Joe preaches on the importance of being life long learners and the spiritual practice of study.

Rev. Joe preaches on how Omar Mateen didn't have to travel to Saudi Arabia to hear anti-gay messages, and how the Christian church needs to confess and atone for its role in dehumanizing the LGBTQ community. Also, lifting up the message of hope that is our Open and Affirming covenant and the rainbow doors out in front of our church.