by Shelly | Feb 6, 2025 | Sermons
Unexpected messengers responding The fifth Sunday after Epiphany continues to highlight unlikely instruments and circumstances appointed to reveal God’s glory. “Who will go for us?” God asks. A person of unclean lips, a former persecutor of the church of God, and...
by Shelly | Jan 30, 2025 | Sermons
Accepting God’s unexpected messenger The glory of God is often revealed when and where it is least expected. God uses our lips to declare that glory, inexperienced and hesitant though they may be. God uses our love to demonstrate that glory and so urges us to...
by Shelly | Jan 22, 2025 | Sermons
Keeping His Word! God’s glory is revealed in the reading of scripture. People stand at attention. People weep. People prostrate themselves in prayer. The unity of the church is another reflection of God’s glory. Most gloriously, the promises of God are fulfilled in...
by Shelly | Jan 15, 2025 | Sermons
God rejoices with us! The Sundays after Epiphany continue to celebrate the revelation of God’s glory to us as it was made known to the magi and to those on Jordan’s banks at Jesus’ baptism—today using wedding imagery. Our God rejoices over God’s people as those being...
by Shelly | Jan 9, 2025 | Sermons
Being a light that points someone to God The feast of Epiphany (“manifestation”) concludes the Christmas season with a celebration of God’s glory revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. In Isaiah and Ephesians, that glory is proclaimed for all nations and people. Like...
by Shelly | Jan 2, 2025 | Sermons
God revealed in human form Within the gospel reading’s profound words lies the simple message that God is revealed in a human person. Though we may try to understand how the Word existed with God from the beginning of time, the wonder we celebrate at Christmas is that...
