Alleluia! Christ is risen! We’ve all been through a lot in the past few years, and it’s taking us a while to “un-forget,” to wake up from the numbness and grief and remember how to live again. The women who came to Jesus’ tomb were also numb from grief, and it took time for them […]
Sometimes you devote your whole life to something, only to discover it isn’t quite what you thought. Sometimes the promised land doesn’t look so great after all when you actually get there. What happened to the promise? Was it all just an illusion, a daydream…or worse, a lie? How do we continue to have faith […]
We hide our true selves behind all sorts of things: clothes, hair and makeup, behaviors, language, and social spheres, just to name a few. On Ash Wednesday we hear Jesus’ words urging us to stop concealing the child of God each of us truly is. There’s no need to hide—God’s love erases our shame and […]
Our world is divided and polarized more than ever before. Anger and rage are just below the surface, threatening to erupt at any moment. In this volatile moment, we hear Jesus’ words: Love your enemies. Do to others as you would have them do to you. The “Golden Rule” doesn’t seem quite so golden these […]
Gravity can be humbling. Just ask any Olympic skier or skater who has wiped out during these Olympic games. But life’s falls and crashes have a way of humbling each one of us, reminding us that we cannot do it all alone, that we need God as a presence in our lives. And oddly enough, […]
We all have moments where we realize that we are out of our depth. Times when we are struck with the realization that God is very, very big and we are very, very small. Situations where we are forced to admit that we don’t have what it takes. Even when faced with what we lack, […]
God is love…love one another…love your neighbor as yourself. Love is a key foundation of our faith. So why don’t we just do it? Why is love, true, expansive love for all people, one of the hardest things we are called to do? Christ not only calls us to love…he loves us into love. This […]
Most of us are probably fed up with “now” and have firmly pinned our hopes on “the future.” Any point in history seems preferable to right now. But our readings say that NOW is the day of the Lord, that TODAY the word of the Lord is being fulfilled. Can it be? And what the […]
What do we do when our spiritual fuel gauge reads EMPTY? In the story of the wedding at Cana, we hear how Jesus filled the empty stone jars with water that he turned into wine, in spite of everyone else’s expectations. In the same way, he takes us and fills us with grace to pour […]
The Rev. Dick Yost serves as our guest preacher and presider today. This worship service includes Communion as an extension of the table at St. Peter’s on Sunday, January 2, 2022. You may want to have bread/cracker and wine/juice ready before you watch. The Bible readings for this worship service are: Jeremiah 31:7-14; Psalm 147:12-20; […]