by Shelly | Feb 13, 2025 | Sermons
Blessings and hope – Trusting God amidst turmoil 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 crowd among those who...
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...