Sermons

Click here to watch the sermon. Isaiah 6:1-8; Luke 5:1-11 I am not a particularly observant person. I am not likely to notice a new haircut or hair color.  I won’t notice if you start to work out.  You’d probably have to lose 20% of your body weight before I would notice.  The good news is, I won’t notice if you […]

Click here to watch the video. 1 Corinthians 13 Billy Collins, a professor and a nationally-recognized poet, wrote a poem called “Introduction to Poetry” about teaching poetry. He wrote that he wanted students to enter the poem, immerse themselves into it, but instead “All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession

Click here to watch the video. Luke 4:14-21 I did some reading this week about an artist of some renown. This artist “attributed much about his life and his work to his underwhelming physique. As a child he felt overshadowed by his older brother, Jarvis, a first-rate student and athlete.  [The artist], by contrast, was slight and pigeon-toed…. His grades were

Hi, friends. Thank you for joining me for a little online worship this snowy morning. Since it’s Martin Luther King, Jr, weekend, I want us to start by listening to some of his most famous words. You know the speech—maybe even know it so well that it almost feels like scripture to you. But when

Click here to watch the sermon. Luke 3:15-16, 21-22 (CEB) The people were filled with expectation, and everyone wondered whether John might be the Christ. John replied to them all, “I baptize you with water, but the one who is more powerful than me is coming. I’m not worthy to loosen the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with

Click here to watch the sermon. Matthew 2:1-12 John Ross Dix was a British writer and poet in the 1800s. He led a difficult life. He wrote poetry, but poetry doesn’t pay the bills. His first business failed within a year. He studied medicine (his education paid for by his friends) but his alcoholism ended his medical career. He tried several

In 1818, a young assistant priest named Joseph Mohr in Oberndorf, Austria, asked a schoolmaster and organist in a nearby village to write a melody for some song lyrics he had written two years before. Franz Xaver Gruber complied, and the result was our beloved carol Silent Night, which was sung for the first time

Click here to watch the video Luke 1:39-56 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry,

Click here to watch the sermon. Luke 1:21-25 O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by. Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Mary and gathered all

Click here to watch the sermon. Isaiah 9:2-7 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness—on them light has shined. 3 You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder. 4