Sermons from 2024

This week we take a massive leap in the narrative and dial into a woman named Hannah. She offers one of the most authentic prayers in all of the scriptures, and then recites what is often described as a “song” which will echo into the early chapters of the Gospel of Luke. Hannah is fierce, strong, and determined, and she gives to us a glimpse into why we may often find ourselves frustrated with the state of the world. -Pastor Paul…

SCRIPTURE: Exodus 32:1-14 (NRSVUE) 32 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 2 Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives,…

This Sunday we will be taking a big turn of the page out of the Book of Genesis and into the Book of Exodus. Stuff’s about to really heat up. Which is a serous understatement! This week we will looking at a portion of the story of Israel’s exodus out of Egypt. The story is too big and too multifaceted to ever be covered all at once, so we will be taking a peak into it and how we still see elements…

This Sunday we continue journeying through the story, taking less of a leap than we did last week. Last week we were introduced to Abram (later Abraham), and this week we jump to the story of his great-grandsons, most notably Joseph. It’s a long story, probably the longest in all of the Scriptures (depending on how you define it), and it is rich! So rich that Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a famous Broadway musical based on it, and it follows…

We last week we left off with Adam and Eve having eaten of the “forbidden fruit”  and what that might mean in terms of the human condition. This week we’ll take a big leap, as we look at Abram (later known is Abraham) and his journey. It’s a long and complicated one, and it but we will be honing in on just a small, and I think very human, part of Abram’s story. It’s a big, scary out world there,…

SCRIPTURE: Luke 24:45-53 (NRSVUE) 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah[a] is[b] to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses[c] of these things. 49 And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with…