Sermon Speaker

Pastor Katie

Online Worship: Fifth Sunday in Lent

We all have moments of heartbreak in our lives. It’s part of being human. But when our hearts are broken, it is like the turning of soil in the spring to be planted with new seeds and the hope of something new. Jesus tries to explain his coming death and resurrection using the image of […]

Online Worship: Fourth Sunday in Lent

Sometimes the Bible is just flat-out weird. Our readings today include a strange and mysterious story of poisonous snakes with the Israelites in the wilderness and a strange and mysterious conversation that Jesus has with Nicodemus at night. The thing that causes sickness and suffering in these stories is transformed into an agent of healing. […]

Online Worship: Third Sunday in Lent

What’s hiding in your closet? The Ten Commandments call us to trust that God will provide all things that we need. Therefore we don’t need to spend our whole lives accumulating more. When Jesus throws the merchants out of the temple, he is cleaning house, defending the worship of God alone and rejecting the ways […]

Online Worship: First Sunday in Lent

In these stories of flood and wilderness, we hear about the power of a new beginning, a fresh start. However, a fresh start isn’t always the same as a clean slate. It doesn’t always look pretty, but God takes our raw materials and builds something new out of them. God takes what we are and […]

Online Worship: Transfiguration of Our Lord

At his transfiguration, Jesus becomes dazzlingly bright and his face and clothes shine like the sun. But what about the others there? They don’t get the “glow up” treatment that Jesus does, but they too are transfigured in a slower and less sparkly way. God calls and transfigures us to shine brightly as agents of […]

Online Worship: Fifth Sunday after Epiphany

In Jesus’ healing work, we see the hand of God, lifting up those who are ill to health and service and lifting up the powerless to soar on wings like eagles. Through our own hands, imperfect yet gifted, we are given the gifts of community and relationship. Healing brings us out of isolation and into […]

Online Worship: Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

Who’s got the power? Is it the unclean spirit (whatever that is) possessing the man in the synagogue? Is it Jesus, who tells him to get lost? Power without limits makes us a little wild. It’s exhilarating and it goes to our head. Jesus gives us the power to say NO to destructive power, and […]

Online Worship: Third Sunday after Epiphany

Good news, bad news; which do you want first? In a world filled with things labeled as good news, we are hungry for truly good news that is more than just empty words. In Jesus, God’s expansive, powerful, healing love has come near to this broken world. This good news turns us around and catches […]

Online Worship: Baptism of Our Lord

When there’s a baptism, you know the Spirit is in the air. Whether it’s a baby or an older child or an adult, unexpected things have a way of happening at a baptism. In Jesus’ baptism, the Holy Spirit tears open the heavens and comes down, possessing him and directing his life from that moment […]

Online Worship: Epiphany Sunday

The story of the mysterious Three Wise Kings…are they for real? The story of the magi visiting Jesus and his family has many layers of tradition and legend built up over the blank spaces of the story. But what is most important for us today? There is a place in this story for all of […]

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