by Shelly | Mar 18, 2022 | Sermons
Getting another chance to show fruits of love The warnings are plentiful and blunt on the third Sunday in Lent. Cut it out or get cut down! The warnings are accompanied by God’s invitation to attentiveness: “Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may...
by Shelly | Mar 8, 2022 | Sermons
Enfolded under the safety of God’s presence Though we sometimes doubt and often resist God’s desire to protect and save us, our God persists. In holy baptism, God’s people have been called and gathered into a God-initiated relationship that will endure. Lent...
by Shelly | Feb 26, 2022 | Sermons
Physical reminders of God’s presence strengthen us to walk with Christ during our lenten journey These forty days called Lent are like no other. It is our opportune time to return to the God who rescues, to receive the gifts of God’s grace, to believe with the...
by Shelly | Feb 26, 2022 | Sermons
Revealing Christ’s Glory Witnesses to the glory of God in the face of Jesus reflect that glory in the world. It was true for Moses. It was doubtless true for Peter, James, and John. We pray that it will be true of all of us who see God’s glory in the word and in...
by Shelly | Feb 17, 2022 | Sermons
Restoring relationships by putting on Christ Mercy. Mercy. Mercy. Joseph lives it in Egypt. Jesus preaches it in the gospel. The Spirit guides us into merciful lives with the power of forgiveness to reconcile what is fractured and divided. Such merciful living is the...
by Shelly | Feb 11, 2022 | Sermons
To whom are the “Blessed ares” and “woe tos” directed? Blessings and curses abound on the sixth Sunday after Epiphany. We would do well to listen closely to whom the “blessed ares” and the “woe tos” are directed and to find our place in the...
