Every 500 years the world changes. Reading the great historians and religious scholars (Phyllis Tickle, Phyllis Airhart, Harvey Cox, Justo Gonzalez, etc), this is profoundly true about our faith. From the shift from Moses to Kings, from Exile to the birth of Jesus, roughly every five hundred years, we undergo a dramatic shift. Phyllis Tickle…
Sermons from October 2016
I gotta tell you I really wanted to call this sermon, How to be a Christian without being a Jerk but in writing this sermon, I realized, that if you type that into google, there’s actually a ton of websites about it.
Our Daily Bread[1] I hate to make blanket statements…but I’ll go ahead anyways…all of us have had a moment in our lives when God was silent. Or felt at a distance…or not at all. Moments when we’ve felt lost in the problem of the moment, overburdened by powerless or loss or grief or fear,…
The Gift of Gratitude Being happy isn’t easy. There’s a world filled with stories that cause us unhappiness. Yet we read stories both biblically and outside of scripture, that show us another entryway to happiness, rooted in gratitude. Gratitude is the practice of thankfulness…and it can lead to happiness…but it’s more than that. As we…
Worldwide Communion began just over 80 years ago as a reminder to all Christians the faith that we share. On Oct 2, we shared communion in the church but we realize that many couldn’t join us in service, so we posted the communion liturgy here for you to listen and share in this act of…
Rev. Chris is now providing us with a written copy of his sermon so now you can read it, listen to it or follow along and do both. Sometimes the Spirit moves, and Rev. Chris may go off script but the spirit of the message remains true.