Closed Doors

A Sermon for Easter Sunday

In Scrapbooks of Mercy, Pastor Nancy walks us through the winding history of a beloved gospel story. Along the way we uncover Jesus widening the sacred circle of grace. once more Jesus refuses the scripts of shame, opens space for mercy, and invites both the accused and the accusers into new life.

This sermon for the fifth Sunday in Lent invites you to flip through your own “scrapbook of mercy,” remembering the stories of grace from your faith journey.

Scripture: John 8:1-11

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"Dreams for the Neighborhood" invites us to make space to listen for voices on the margins, building on Jesus's intentional welcome of children and the Hebrew Scriptures prominent theme to provide for the vulnerable in our communities. This is a hopeful, grounded reflection for anyone longing to see their community transformed by compassion.

Crying Glacier documentary LINK.

Deuteronomy 24:17-22; Matthew 19:13-15

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These are days when many feel a bone‑deep weariness—from juggling too much, and wondering how far our energy, hope, and resources can stretch. We are caught in the mindset of scarcity. In “Holy Imaginations,” Pastor Nancy turns to Mark 6:29–44, the feeding of the multitude, to explore how Jesus meets our very human exhaustion with compassion to widen what we believe is possible.

This sermon invites us to set aside the idea that we alone can solve big problems. Instead Jesus encourages us to cultivate a sacred imagination that sees the power in community connections, through which we bring our small offerings together and the Spirit multiplies them into unexpected abundance.

Pastor Nancy moves from a first‑century dinner table in Luke 7 to the opening days of the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran, revealing how nations—and individuals—can fail to see the humanity of those they harm. Drawing on Martin Buber and Martin Luther King Jr., she presses a timely question at the intersection of faith and politics: What happens when we treat people as objects instead of beloved neighbors?

Links:

Rick Steves' Iran documentary

MLKJr's Letter from a Birmingham Jail

In her first sermon for our Lenten series, Tell Me Something Good, Pastor Nancy finds common threads in a wedding party in jeopardy, a wild mustard seed, and a shared Iftar in Gaza. Listen as she reveals how God’s good news keeps breaking in through small, surprising acts of hope.

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