Second on the Mount

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon by the Dr. George C. Anderson from Sunday, August 16, 2026.

"Jesus has high expectations for [the disciples]. He does not expect them to take what they have been given and bury it. He does not expect them to be a light hidden under a bushel, or salt left in a container. What God has given them is meant to be invested—meant to be shared. More is expected of them—not because they are somehow more important, but because God has entrusted them to invest what they have been given.

"That is why I chose this passage three months ago. Because even before my sabbatical began, I could see gaps forming because of cultural shifts in the larger church and in the world—gaps that I believed this congregation was unusually gifted to help address."

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Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon by the Rev. Elizabeth N.H. Link from Sunday, August 9, 2026.

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Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon by Nancy O. Gray, Parish Associate for Visitation, from Sunday, August 2, 2026.

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Genesis 32:22-31

Sermon by the Rev. Ben Brannan from Sunday, July 26, 2026.

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Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon by the Rev. Elizabeth N.H. Link from Sunday, July 19, 2026.

"There are enough seeds to waste. God is not an efficient investor. God does not wait until the conditions are perfect before sowing grace, God scatters mercy where we would never bother, God plants hope in places that seem barren, God keeps speaking the Word of the Kingdom into lives that everyone else has given up on."

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Sung Prayer for Illumination: "Open My Eyes, That I May See." TEXT and MUSIC: Clara H. Scott, 1895. Public domain.

Genesis 28:10-19a

Sermon by the Rev. Ben Brannan from Sunday, July 12, 2026.

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Galatians 5:1, 13-25

Sermon by Nancy O. Gray, Parish Associate for Visitation, from Sunday, July 5, 2026.

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Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon by the Rev. Elizabeth N.H. Link from Sunday, June 28, 2026.

"The God who sees Hagar in the wilderness, who sees Isaac on the mountain is still the God who sees every vulnerable child, every wounded neighbor, every forgotten person. Perhaps That’s what 'the LORD will see' has meant all along. God is still calling God’s people to become interrupters of violence rather than participants in it."

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Genesis 12:1-4a

Sermon by the Rev. Ben Brannan from Sunday, June 21, 2026.

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Genesis 12:1-4a

Sermon by the Rev. Ben Brannan from Sunday, June 14, 2026.

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