by Shelly | Feb 29, 2024 | Sermons
God’s covenants – The law frees us for God’s priorities The third covenant in this year’s Lenten readings is the central one of Israel’s history: the gift of the law to those God freed from slavery. The commandments begin with the statement that...
by Shelly | Feb 22, 2024 | Sermons
God’s covenants gives us new identities The second covenant in this year’s Lenten readings is the one made with Abraham and Sarah: God’s promise to make them the ancestors of many, with whom God will remain in everlasting covenant. Paul says this promise comes...
by Shelly | Feb 17, 2024 | Sermons
The paradox of God’s mark of love Grace invites the community to join in celebrating the official installation of Rev. Emerson Remy Remmers as the called pastor for this congregation. Bishop Laurie Larson Caesar and Assistant Bishop Rev. Melissa O’Keefe...
by Shelly | Feb 17, 2024 | Sermons
God’s makes a covenant in baptism On Ash Wednesday the church began its journey toward baptismal immersion in the death and resurrection of Christ. This year, the Sundays in Lent lead us to focus on five covenants God makes in the Hebrew Scriptures and to use...
by Shelly | Feb 13, 2024 | Sermons
The paradox of God’s mark of love On Ash Wednesday we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the...
by Shelly | Feb 9, 2024 | Sermons
God-light shines from Jesus’ face The Sundays after Epiphany began with Jesus’ baptism and end with three disciples’ vision of his transfiguration. In Mark’s story of Jesus’ baptism, apparently only Jesus sees the Spirit descending and hears the words from...
