Sermons from 2025
02 Nov 2025
All SaintsNovember 2, 2025Ephesians 1.11-23 I don’t know about you, but there are times when I reflect on how I’ve gotten to this iteration of my life, of my self-hood and I can see what I have picked up along the way from various family members. There is a strange sort of comfort in looking at yourself in the mirror and not only knowing the things that are uniquely your individual self, but also those parts that reflect and remind you…
26 Oct 2025
ReformationOctober 26, 2025Romans 3.19-28 Nine years ago, I thought Carol wanted to be the Pope when she grew up. Some context for some of you and a reminder for others, because let’s be real, nine years is a long time ago. Reformation Sunday 2016 was my call sermon Sunday here, so other than a few of you, I was meeting everyone for the first time, and at that first sermon, I asked what people had wanted to be when they grew up. Carol,…
19 Oct 2025
19th Sunday after PentecostOctober 19, 2025Luke 18.1-8 I will be the first to admit that my nephew’s have me entirely figured out. They know that I am the weak link when it comes to decision making and making them happy. I cannot handle when they don’t get something that they want, and I guess that makes me a good aunt, right? Because I’m the one that will just say yes, regardless of circumstances or situation. Sebastian is a big one for wanting you to watch him do…
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…