Our heart health is often measured by our religious practices. Jesus flips that around and says we can be quite religious but our hearts far from God. We are admonished to ‘guard your heart’, the cure for the heartburn of spiritual reflux. Sermon by Howard Garver

Simeon and Anna were people of God who welcomed the new thing that God was doing through Jesus. As part of God’s kingdom, how do we invite and embrace what is new? Sermon by Gina Burkhart

We wish one another a merry (or happy) Christmas but the angels came announced to the shepherds “good news that will cause great joy for all the people” (Luke 2:10). What is an understanding of Christmas that results in deep and lasting joy? Mary’s song suggests that Christmas was about turning things upside down. Perhaps […]

God, through Isaiah, offers comfort to his oppressed and distressed people in Babylon and gives them the good news that their exile is over. We, too, long for comfort in our world of pain and turmoil. The good news is that God is walking with us through the “wilderness” of our lives. Sermon by Mary […]

Advent is about learning to wait for Jesus. But waiting does not mean that we are idle. We are challenged to be honest with our frustrations and live in purposeful ways while we anticipate Jesus’ return. Sermon by Gina Burkhart

George Stoltzfus concludes the One Anothering series with a brief review and  a story describing the impact these sermons had on his personal walk of faith.

Jesus gives us a single way to identify ourselves as faithful followers of Jesus – love one another. At a time when this foundational idea itself has become divisive, perhaps we need to re-examine this ‘new’ command of Jesus. Sermon by Howard Garver

Jesus healed Bartimaeus, and in the process brought healing to the citizens of Jericho. When Jesus opens our eyes, we see those around us as the beloved children of God. Sermon by Ron Adams

Sermon by Joji Pantoja, Chief Executive Officer, Coffee For Peace, Inc.

God’s dream – the Church – is the only place we can be fully human. We resist the pull of culture toward individualism and find ourselves “stirred” by our relationships with each other to become all that God intends us to be. Sermon by Howard Garver