Sermons from April 2025
27 Apr 2025
2nd Sunday of Easter April 27, 2025 John 20.19-31 Ever since he was little Felix has always brought an unexpected profundity to his faith. For as long as I can remember, he has always come up with just the most random, thought-provoking questions about God, about the world, and how it all works. We joke that he will be the next pastor amongst us, that’s the level of depth these questions are at. Let me tell you, the joy I got when Jennifer started seminary so…
20 Apr 2025
EasterApril 20, 2025Luke 24.1-12 I want you to take a journey with me back to President’s Day 2025. It is a decently comfortable day outside, a little chilly, but not awful. We are only a couple of days out from Jim Cantore levels of snow apparently, and I have one final task that I need to get done before the house goes on the market on Thursday: I have to get the leaves in the backyard bagged up. Full confession,…
13 Apr 2025
Palm SundayApril 13, 2025Luke 19.28-40 Let me take you back almost nine months, to a basketball arena in New Orleans. It’s the first full night of the Gathering, and our youth have had a day. After a disastrous accompaniment morning that was just all kinds of shades of not good, we had then experienced penguins and stingrays and butterflies at the aquarium, hauled all the way across the city for a several hours long rehearsal for our mass cast performance,…