Sermons

Meditation – November 4, 2018

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Meditation Sunday, November 4th, 2018 60th Anniversary/Homecoming Service Ruth 1: 1-18 1In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and two sons. 2The name of the man was Elimelech and […]

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Meditation – Lent 5 – March 18, 2018

Monday, March 19, 2018

John 19:1-16a 1Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. 3They kept coming up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and striking him on the face. 4Pilate went out again and said to them, […]

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Meditation – Lent 4 – March 11, 2018

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

John 18:28-40 Jesus before Pilate 28Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover. 29So Pilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this […]

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Meditation – Lent 3 – March 4, 2018

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

John 18:12-27 12So the soldiers, their officer, and the Jewish police arrested Jesus and bound him. 13First they took him to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. 14Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one person die for the people. Peter […]

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Meditation – Lent 2 – February 25, 2018

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Gospel Reading John 13:1-17 1Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of […]

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Meditation – Lent 1 – February 18, 2018

Monday, February 19, 2018

Gospel Reading: John 11:1-44 1Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,£ “Lord, he whom you love is […]

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Humbled at the Table – Oct. 1, 2017

Monday, October 2, 2017

You think you own whatever land you land on The earth is just a dead thing you can claim But I know ev’ry rock and tree and creature Has a life, has a spirit, has a name.   You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you […]

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Sermon – Sunday, June 4, 2017

Monday, June 5, 2017

This really is not your typical Sunday service. I know that it might seem a bit confusing as to why we had communion before the meditation, but I think that for me, it makes a statement that is important today in a number of ways. This is Pentecost Sunday, the beginning of the church and […]

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Christmas Day Service – 2016

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Decorations and Traditions Holly Garland – God promises eternal life John 3: 16 NRSV 16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Background to the Holly Garland Holly is evergreen, a symbol of eternal life obtained […]

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