Sermons
Get Up!
Speaker: Chet Jechura
Let us pray. God of Resurrection Glory: You gave Peter the power to raise up Dorcas from the dead. Raise us up, we pray, from the things that hold us back and weigh us down. That we might raise each other up. And may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart […]
Visions of Vision
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
You’ve got to love a scripture passage that begins with: meanwhile. Meanwhile Saul continued to breathe murderous threats against the disciples. Okay, so maybe we don’t necessarily like what comes after the meanwhile in this particular sentence, murderous threats aren’t really things to love. But what this meanwhile does tell us is twofold – one […]
Nazis In The Basement
Speaker: Ben Goossen
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The Last Word
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
So much wrong and so much injustice, as you shouldered a wooden cross. Now like you, my best dreams are shattered; all I know is the weight of loss. My beloved, my beloved, tell me where can you be found? You drank deep of the cup of suffering and your death is our holy ground. […]
Sensing The Holy
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
If you were at the church retreat last fall, you may remember us doing some Biblio drama around the story of the woman anointing Jesus’ feet. A version of this story appears in all four gospels and when we explored the story at retreat – we used a mashed up remix of the accounts to […]
Lost and Found at Home
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Jesus told this parable a long time ago. It still gets told over and over in different ways, in literature, in song, in real life. There is something so compelling about this story that even people who aren’t Jesus followers know it. As familiar as this parable is, I have never had an opportunity to […]
Measuring The Fig Tree
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
HWB 485 (sing) Teach me the measure of my days, thou Maker of my frame. I would survey life’s narrow space and learn how frail I am. These ominous comments in Luke from Jesus and the subsequent parable have me scratching my head every time I hear them. Maybe it is the […]
#Sermon
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
Scripture is an ancient text – we live with it in current times, seeking to understand what messages and insights it continues to offer. We can’t help but bring a modern (post, post modern) lens to our reading of scripture because that is the context we are coming from. And yet today, we are going […]
40
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
Once again we find ourselves embarking on the Lenten journey. Lent is the 40 days (minus Sundays) between Shrove Tuesday and Easter Sunday. It is a season to spend time in intentional reflection and consideration of one’s physical and spiritual state. Very often people give up something for this season as a way of making […]
(trans)Figuration
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Today is a mountain top day for our congregation with the ordination of our beloved pastor, Michelle. And how amazing that we get this biblical mountain top story to accompany us. This is the second time that I get to preach about this transfiguration story on a big day for Michelle. Six years ago, on […]