Cynthia Lapp

Fruitless Fig

February 28, 2016
Isaiah 55:1-9; Luke 13:1-9
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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

February 14, 2016
Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Luke 4:1-13
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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

February 07, 2016
Luke 4:(14-20) 21-30
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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

January 10, 2016
Isaiah 43:1-7; Luke 3:15-18, 21-22
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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

December 20, 2015
Luke 1:39-56
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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

November 29, 2015
Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25:1-10; I Thessalonians 3:9-13; Luke 21:25-36
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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

November 22, 2015
Matthew 22:1-10; Revelation 1: 4b-8; Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
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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, […]

We Need Jesus, Y’all

October 25, 2015
Mark 10:46-52; Psalm 34: 1-8
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The gospels give us a lot of stories about Jesus healing people. It can be one of the most exciting things about Jesus. Jesus makes blind people see, deaf people […]

Into The Lake

October 11, 2015
Mark 5:1-20
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Once he had a family, but that was before. Now there is no place for him. Everyone has had to distance themselves from him, his violent threats and outbursts are […]

Dear Dr. King

September 06, 2015
Isaiah 35:3-7; Mark 7:24-37
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Dear Dr. King, We received your letter written from a Birmingham jail cell in August, 1963. It arrived a lifetime ago, more than 2 lifetimes of Michael Brown, more than […]