The Nativity of the Lord (24 December 2019) Luke 2:1-20 Rev. Cameron Merrill As we end our series “Labor of Love,” we listen for the ways that Mary’s labor to make room in her body and life for God to come into the world, makes room for us to join in with her as God-bearers.

Fourth Sunday of Advent (22 December 2019) Matthew 1:18-25 Rev. Cameron Merrill Continuing our series about the ways that love is laborious and costly, we look into the life of Joseph, our father of costly discipleship.

Second Sunday of Advent (8 December 2019) Matthew 3:1-12 Rev. Cameron Merrill Continuing our series about the ways that love is laborious and costly, we listen to John the Baptizer: for his labor of love, for the work he takes on in order to help prepare the way for Love the Guest who is on […]

First Sunday of Advent (1 December 2019) Isaiah 2:1-5 Rev. Cameron Merrill As we begin a new season, we start a new series, listening for the ways that love is costly, hard work: how it costs God something to love us, how it costs others to participate in God’s love, and how God’s labor of […]

Christ the King Sunday (24 November 2019) Luke 23:33-43 Rev. Cameron Merrill Around the foot of the Cross, there are many voices trying to figure out what sort of king this Jesus is. Voices that try to make him into the king that they want, the king that they think they need. Instead, in the silence […]

The Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity (17 November 2019) Luke 21:5-19 Rev. Cameron Merrill Jesus tells his disciples that this beautiful temple before them will be torn down, not one stone left on another. When they ask for signs for when this will happen, he tells them that the signs will be plain, written in the moon […]

The Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity (10 November 2019) Luke 20:27-38 Rev. Cameron Merrill In responding to the Sadducees’ absurd scenario, Jesus brings marriage and resurrection together in a way that unburdens marriage to be one of the many means of grace God gives us. It is through these means that we learn to become present to […]

The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity (6 October 2019) 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 Rev. Cameron Merrill The third sermon in our series on Cultivating Community, Pastor Cameron reflects St Paul’s second letter to the Corinthian church. Coming after Paul’s humiliating visit, this letter encourages the people to ground their life together in gratitude, thanksgiving that produces generosity in them, […]

The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity (6 October 2019) Colossians 3:1-11 Rev. Cameron Merrill The second sermon in our series on Cultivating Community, Pastor Cameron reflects St Paul’s teaching to the church that we put off our old habits, our old lives and put on Christ–by not telling lies to one another.

The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity (6 October 2019) Exodus 34:1-10 Rev. Cameron Merrill The first sermon in our series on Cultivating Community, Pastor Cameron reflects on Israel’s story of discovering God’s unending faithfulness and fidelity as our motivation to be promise makers and promise keepers for the sake of community.