by Shelly | Apr 20, 2021 | Easter Events, Sermons
The Good Shepherd’s Love for Us – ALELUIA! The image of the good shepherd shows us how the risen Christ brings us to life. It is the relationship between the shepherd and the sheep, one of mutual knowledge and love, that gives the shepherd authority. The...
by Shelly | Apr 11, 2021 | Easter Events, Sermons
Resurrection of Our Lord – ALELUIA! The gospel for the third Sunday of Easter is always one in which the risen Christ shares food with the disciples, meals that are the Easter template for the meal we share each Sunday. In today’s gospel, Jesus both shares the...
by Shelly | Apr 10, 2021 | Easter Events, Sermons
Resurrection of Our Lord – ALELUIA! Jesus does “Whatever it Takes!” The Easter season is a week of weeks, seven Sundays when we play in the mystery of Christ’s presence, mostly through the glorious Gospel of John. Today we gather with the disciples...
by Shelly | Mar 31, 2021 | Easter Events, Sermons
Resurrection of Our Lord – ALELUIA! Christ is risen! Jesus is alive, and God has swallowed up death forever. With Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, we may feel astonished and confused, unsure of what to make of the empty tomb. But this is why...
by Shelly | Mar 27, 2021 | Sermons
From triumphant entry to death on a cross – What love! This week, the center of the church’s year, is one of striking contrasts: Jesus rides into Jerusalem surrounded by shouts of glory, only to be left alone to die on the cross, abandoned by even his closest...
by Shelly | Mar 18, 2021 | Sermons
Create in me a clean heart, O God God promises Jeremiah that a “new covenant” will be made in the future: a covenant that will allow all the people to know God by heart. The church sees this promise fulfilled in Christ, who draws all people to himself when he is...
