Sermon Archive

Sermon Archive

12 Oct 2025

18th Sunday after PentecostOctober 12, 2025Luke 17.11-19           For the second time in three years, I have come home from Costa Rica having left part of my heart with a little guy of no more than four or five years old.  The first time, it was Mateo, a five year old heartbreaker who spent tons of time with me showing me his gold chain and playing with my necklace, only to go back to his mom and wink at me.  Give it ten years or so…

21 Sep 2025

Good morning and joyful greetings, my beautiful siblings in Christ! What a wonderful day to be out in God’s Creation worshipping together and relishing our shared community in Jesus Christ! Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Today is… abnormal. We’re outside, yes, but today is a particularly special day for all of us gathered here and myself specifically—It is a day of spiritual renewal. Long story short, I approached Pastor Tina a few months ago and asked to…

14 Sep 2025

14th Sunday after PentecostSeptember 14, 2025Luke 15.1-10           All week, I haven’t been able to get one particular scene from Lilo & Stitch out of my head.  For some context, when Lilo adopts Stitch, she treats him like he’s her baby, she tucks him into bed, he has a bottle, filled with coffee mind you, but still a bottle, and she reads him bedtime stories.  One of the books that he ends up picking up and requesting to be read is The Ugly Duckling.  He turns to a…

07 Sep 2025

13th Sunday after PentecostSeptember 7, 2025God’s Work, Our Hands           I can’t say that I ever anticipated doing a sermon about the sea diving women of Korea in the 1940’s but here we are.  This wholly lies at the feet of one of the women in my book club because she chose a book about it, and while I was expected a book about, well, sea diving…what I have gotten is a painfully bleak book about the reality of life in Korea in…

31 Aug 2025

12th Sunday of PentecostAugust 31, 2025Luke 14.1, 7-14           In honor of Hamilton hitting theaters this weekend, it seems only fitting to present you with lines from one of my favorite songs from the musical.  We are in the post-Revolution years, and all of the main players are figuring out what to do next, now that their roles as soldiers are finished.  Both Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton have become fathers, their lives have shifted, they are trying to find their place in the wide world…

24 Aug 2025

11th Sunday after PentecostAugust 24, 2025Isaiah 58.9b-14           I want to take this time to acknowledge a very important season that is almost upon us.  Yes, it is time that I wish you all a very happy, almost football season.  And I know, cue some eye rolls from some of you, cue some “Skols” from some of you, cue some ambivalence from some of you.  But to those who celebrate, happy football season.           Now what this means for my family is a couple of things.  It…

17 Aug 2025

10th Sunday after PentecostAugust 17, 2025Jeremiah 23.23-39; Luke 12.49-56           There is no greater master of lies and deception than a dog who wants their owner to simply go stark raving mad.  I give you case and point, my beloved, adorable, entirely maddening, Scully.  Don’t get me wrong, I love this dog.  I adore this dog.  BUT!  She has mastered the art of messing with me to the point that I wish she was just a smidge dumber.             This has been going on since she was a…

10 Aug 2025

9th Sunday after PentecostAugust 10, 2025Hebrews 11.1; Genesis 15.1-6           I’ve been joking with my family that I’m currently in the midst of my “ship era.”  Not nearly as catchy as some of Taylor Swift’s eras, but here we are.  The reason for this is that I have read back to back books which took place on 17th century Dutch trading ships and then when we were in OBX last week, we wandered around the replica of the QEII and I had to have looked…

03 Aug 2025

8th Sunday after PentecostAugust 3, 2025Luke 12.13-21           Every July first, I know my phone is going to pop with more than one text message wishing me a happy very specific day, a day that has nothing to do with me, and is kind of weird to acknowledge, but like I said, it happens every year.  Every year, as much as I wish it to others, they also wish me, a very happy Bobby Bonilla Day.  Unless you are a Mets fan, or a…

27 July 2025

7th Sunday of PentecostJuly 27, 2025Genesis 18.20-32   I have a very odd relationship with our first lesson this morning, because on the one hand it takes me back to just one of the worst days, on the other, there is an element of that worst day that fills me with hope and love, and not that there is a third hand, but on the third hand it also makes me chuckle because in the midst of all those feelings, it was…

20 July 2025

6th Sunday after PentecostJuly 20, 2025Luke 10.38-42  There is a long running list amongst my sisters and I of movies I never should have been allowed to watch as a kid, but somehow did.  One of my family’s favorite stories is when my cousins came to visit, both of whom were older than me, and Pretty Woman came on the tv at my grandparents’ house and my aunt and uncle made them leave the room.  My five year old self was allowed to stay.  Why?  Because I’d already…

13 Jul 2025

5th Sunday after PentecostJuly 13, 2025Luke 10.25-37           I have to say, in thirteen years of ministry, I have written a lot of sermons about a lot of things, but today…today is a first…and I wholeheartedly blame the Bible study crew, one of them in particular, who shall go unnamed—Misty.  So here we are my beloved siblings in Christ, a sermon about the Donner Party.  I guarantee none of you except the Tuesday morning bunch saw that coming.           So, the year is 1846, and…