Cynthia Lapp
Encountering Christ
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
This week I was searching for signs of the Risen Christ. The liturgical calendar says it is the Easter season. The google calendar says it is spring. It should be […]
The Gift Of Doubt
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Doubt is one of my spiritual gifts. I believe my mother somehow nurtured this in me. When I got to seminary, I discovered the hermeneutics of suspicion. Through this permissible […]
Fleeting Fragrance
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
I have long been intrigued by Tibetan Buddhist monks that work painstakingly to create gorgeous sand mandalas, only to destroy them after they are completed. To my western way of […]
Fruitless Fig
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
I don’t know about you, but I have been feeling overwhelmed. This week, like too many weeks, it is the gun violence in our country, especially now that it hit […]
Living Ink: In The Flesh
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Jesus and the devil, out there in the wilderness for forty days. According to Luke, there were tensions and temptations the whole time. Near the end it gets even more […]
Creating Space
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Today, on this last Sunday before lent, we celebrate the mystery of Jesus, the way he creates space for us to catch glimpses of, and experience, the power of God. […]
Watershed
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Last fall the church council and pastorate, as is our custom, had a day long working retreat. We reviewed the past year or two and then turned our eyes toward […]
Freedom Bound: The Path Of Hope
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
You already know this but your pastors are a lot like you, quite human. We get angry, sad, sick, (cough, cough) joyful, excited and overwhelmed. In this liturgical season of […]
Freedom Bound: The Path of Justice
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
It is advent again. In this congregation it is a bit like what Jesus says about the fig tree in the passage from Luke: Look at the fig tree and […]
The Royal Banquet
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Welcome to this Christ the King Sunday. Three years ago we celebrated it as Christa the Queen Sunday. And in fact we do have Christa with us this morning. Christa, […]