Sermons

James 2:1-17 – An Apostle tells a first century church community how they are to live in light of God’s guidance. We call this Sunday Homecoming because many of us are returning from a time away. Maybe you were busy with other things during the summer but now that school has started and vacations are […]

 Sermon by John McCall, Senior Minister Isaiah 65:18-23 John 6:26-29 The summer after my first year in seminary, 1969, I got a job working at a machine tool shop. I’d just finished a year as a student intern at the nearby Congregational Church where the owner of the shop was a Deacon. I was assigned to

Most of you have received my letter this week, announcing my plan to retire from ministry at the beginning of June, 2013… one more cycle of worship, holidays, Team and Committee meetings, parish visits, weddings, funerals, baptisms, pastoral care, and so much more. Ecclesiastes 3:1-15   “For everything there is a season, and a time

A Sermon By: The Rev. Elsa A. Peters John 6:35, 41-51 Six years ago, almost to the day, I stood in your Chapel for the first time and read these words from the Gospel of John to the search committee that would later call me to be your Associate Pastor and Teacher. Today, I read

Proverbs 9:1-6 It’s one thing to watch a petite blonde woman bounce up and down with enthusiasm. It’s entirely another thing to admire a tall lanky middle-aged man behave in such a manner. But this is how I experienced the Hebrew Scriptures. In seminary, my Old Testament professor would get so excited about these Hebrew

A sermon by John Brierly McCall, D. Min., August 5, 2012 Matthew 14:13-21 – Jesus guides the disciples in feeding the five thousand.   Matthew tells us a story of hungers. Jesus was tired and deeply troubled, having just learned that Herod had executed his cousin John. He knew he was the real target and the net

A sermon by John Brierly McCall, D. Min. Luke 13:1-9   Even if you try to tune it out you know the world’s pain: Penn State abuse scandal, shootings in Aurora, Colorado, Euro zone debt crisis, jobless rate, droughts and wildfires… On and on it goes.   Do you sometimes wonder how God could allow such

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 We are far too civilized to feel the desperation of those who can’t even wait for the boat to be anchored before begging to be healed. We are much too composed to make any such demands. As Cheryl Bridges Johns observes, our church is not flooded with people racing to get here

A sermon by Bob Morse Ephesians 1:3-14 Early in the 20th century, Carl Jung, a famous Swiss psychiatrist, made a trip to the Southwestern part of this country where he spent time with a tribe of Native Americans. He quickly observed that each morning before sunrise, the entire tribe would awaken and begin a most

2 Samuel 4:1-5, 9-10 You were the one, they said. You were the one that led us when things we’re bad. You showed us the way. You conquered our enemies. You made it so that we could see another day. You were the one, they said, when they were not sure about their future. Lead