Preparing for "Pardon the Interruption" | Sermon for December 8. 2024
We are usually more in touch with feelings of remorse and regret than we are with repentance. The first two words focus on emotions of guilt and shame while repentance places the focus squarely on cha...
8 Dec 202423min
Preparing for "The Last Step Is the First One" - Sermon for December 31, 2023
Jesus as a refugee! Not too long after the birth of Jesus the forces of evil, power, and corruption are already trying to end his young life. With all of the power of empire set against Him, God finds...
31 Dec 202325min
5pm Christmas Eve 2023
28 Dec 20231h 14min
10am Christmas Eve 2023
The Christmas story is perhaps the best-known story in all of the Bible. It has been re-enacted time and again by adults and children alike. We warm to the images of Jesus' birth and the wonder of tha...
24 Dec 20231h 5min
Preparing for "Extra-Ordinary Life" - Sermon for December 24, 2023
The Christmas story is perhaps the best known story in all of the Bible. It has been re-enacted time and again by adults and children alike. We warm to the images of Jesus birth and the wonder of that...
24 Dec 202324min
Preparing for "Joy in the Unexpected" - Sermon for December 17, 2023
it is hard to imagine that the cosmos hangs in the balance with two Jewish women in the first century. Elizabeth and Mary have an important moment together when their unborn children meet for the firs...
17 Dec 202322min
Preparing for "The Choices We Make" - Sermon for December 10, 2023
Have you ever been caught between a rock and a hard place? The Bible is filled with stories of people who found themselves in exactly the same place. The story of Joseph, in Matthew's gospel, is a goo...
10 Dec 202320min
Preparing for "Stay or Go?' - Sermon for November 19, 2023
Judging and being judgmental are two different things. One requires prudence and wisdom. The latter requires ingratitude and fear. Jesus offers us a new and wonderful way to balance these these in the...
19 Nov 202323min
