Sermons
The Lion is the Lamb
We are in the thick of Summer, and in the thick of The Book of The Revelation. This week we will look at a HUGE concept in this book which is the concept of “The Lamb”. What is this lamb? What does it mean? What is its purpose? -Pastor Paul Baudhuin
Beauty and the Beast
This Sunday we continue in our series on the Book of the Revelation, AKA: The Unveiling. This week we will unveil the beast! Yeeks! And it’s actually a pretty apt text for this holiday weekend. Come and find why! -Pastor Paul Baudhuin
The Unveiling
This Sunday we kick-off a 6-week series in the wild, mysterious, and widely misunderstood Book of the Revelation. Are you ready? I’m not! (I will be). -Pastor Paul Baudhuin
Bethlehem, Cicely, and Schitt’s Creek
We wrap our four week series on the Book of Ruth this Sunday. I hope you’ve enjoyed this series and this beautiful story. It’s one of my favs. We’ll take a sharp turn the following week and open the Book of The Revelation. Yeeks! -Pastor Paul Baudhuin
Be Like Ruth
This week in worship we carry on in our study of the Book of Ruth, and things really get moving! Again, I find this to be a beautiful, rich love story, and as pointed out in this week’s Bible Study, it’s not a love story merely between two people. It’s a story of omnidirectional love (is that a thing?), a sort of communal love story, and we’ll see that in this week’s chapter. -Pastor Paul Baudhuin
The Ruths In Our Midst
This week the story of Ruth and Naomi takes a turn as we’re introduced to a new character in a man named Boaz. This story, and this chapter, are rich with beauty and implications for our world today. I’m excited to dig into it with y’all! -Pastor Paul
What Is Right Now Will Not Always Be
Well, friends, we are heading into full Summer mode this Sunday! Our concert series wrapped up a couple weeks ago, last Sunday we wrapped another season in the Narrative Lectionary with Pentecost Sunday, Memorial Day has come and gone, and this Sunday is our first in the first of three Summer Series. We will spend the next four weeks in the beautiful Book of Ruth. It’s a short book (only 4 chapters), and is of course about Ruth, but it’s…
It’s All One
As this Sunday is Pentecost Sunday, we will be moving backwards in the narrative to Acts 2, which begins “When the day of Pentecost had come…” That is my continual reminder that what we know as Pentecost is not what the disciples in the story knew as Pentecost. It was an already existing holiday celebrating the first fruit of the harvest and the receiving of the Torah, called Shavuot, and “Pentecost” is merely the Greek form of the Hebrew “Shavuot”.…
The Power to Empower
We are almost at the end of this season in the Narrative Lectionary. Just two Sundays left! This Sunday we will look into Philippians 2 and the Apostle Paul’s famous “Christ Hymn”. It’s a beautiful peace of poetry, and has massive implications on the world we live in today to the degree that I will also be “assigning” some homework! What!?!? Then next week is Pentecost Sunday and we can call this season a wrap. After Pentecost, I’m excited to…
We Are a Resurrection People
This week in worship we are in the first of two weeks in what one scholar describes as The Apostle Paul’s “happiest letter”, his letter to the Philippians. As some of you know, I’m not a huge fan of Paul’s letters, due to my own spiritual baggage. So while I resist him, it’s good that the lectionary makes me deal with him, if only for two weeks! Also, the discussions in our weekly Bible Study (Wednesdays at 4:30 in my…