Into the Deep

Texts: Genesis 1:1-10, Luke 5:1-11 I’m really happy to be with you all today, and to share with you one of my passions—creation-honoring Christian worship. So let me unpack that a little before getting into the meat of the sermon. Today, in many churches around the...

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Audio Coming By The Rev. Lindsey Altvater Clifton Last week Mark’s gospel was calling us disciples to “go on and git,” listening to other people’s stories and sharing those of God’s love. This week, the invitation from Luke’s gospel is similar…to do love.  And while...

Partners on the GO!

Audio coming By The Rev. Lindsey Altvater Clifton   I’m a big fan of professional soccer.  Well, women’s professional soccer, really.  The men’s game tends to be riddled with too much flopping and flailing for my taste.  While is has been three years now, I...

The End of the Law

Audio coming By The Rev. J.C. Austin   “Good fences make good neighbors.”  It’s an old Yankee proverb that features in the well-known poem by Robert Frost called “Mending Wall,” in which he considers that sentiment in light of a wall between his own farm and his...

Spirit of Unity

Audio coming By The Rev. Lindsey Altvater Clifton   Poet, writer, and musician Joy Harjo – a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation – recently concluded her tenure as our country’s first Native American Poet Laureate.  To mark the changing of the guard,...

Marital Counseling

Audio coming! By The Rev. Dr. Alexandra M. Hendrickson   Small warning, before I read this text again from Eugene Peterson’s interpretation. This text and my sermon will use terms that are sometimes hard to hear. Hosea 1:2-11: The Message The first time God spoke...