John 13:1-17, 31b-35

At the last supper in the Upper Room, Jesus gives us a new commandment. We are to love one another as He has loved us. Is this a new commandment...or one that we just don't use very often?

Matthew 21:1-11

On this day of the triumphal entry at Palm Sunday, will we choose to become a bearer of the King of Kings... a humble donkey... to serve Him?

Living Our Baptismal Calling: Believe!

John 11:1-45

The faith we confess, and the faith that transforms us, is more than intellectual assent to a theological construct. It is to stake our lives on the Triune God, and so join Martha’s confession, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into this world.”

Living Our Baptismal Calling: Nurture

The response of the crowds to Jesus’ healing of a man born blind says much about how our congregation can actively “nurture one another in the Christian faith and life, and include these persons now before you in your care,” or fail to do so

Living Our Baptismal Calling: Confess

John 4:5-42

In an encounter with a woman at a well in Samaria, Jesus confesses he is the Messiah, and she not only embraces this, but leads others to make the same confession.

Recorded on Mar 12, 2017, Second Sunday in Lent. We examine the second of our baptismal promises: Do you accept the freedom and power God gives you to resist evil, injustice, and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves?

Sermon for Lent 1 - Mar 5, 2017. We examine the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness as described in Matthew 4:1-11 and see how we are empowered through our baptism to renounce, reject and repent of the forces of evil and wickedness tempting us.

Ash Wednesday Sermon Mar 1, 2017