Sermons

Lay Down Your Power for Your Friends

Laying down our life for our friends doesn’t necessarily mean dying. Maybe we’re called to lay down a way of life.

May 8, 20215 min read

For Better for Worse, for Richer for Poorer

Why do we reserve the kind of love we proclaim in our wedding vows only for our partners?

May 1, 20215 min read

Transaction vs. Transformation

transformation can only happen when we feel like we belong to one another.

Apr 24, 20215 min read

Moving Through Grief

We can’t make grief go away—we all know it doesn’t—but grief evolves. It can diminish in intensity, we can and do learn to live with it.

Apr 17, 20214 min read

Kizimani: Living the Gospel in Kenya

Linda Simmons offers a homily about her work with Kizimani in Kenya.

Apr 10, 20211 min read

To Say a Name

Let us remember that it is when we learn—and when we say—one another’s names that the veil is lifted and resurrection is revealed.

Apr 4, 20214 min read

Our Transgender Siblings: Absolutely Beloved

By following Jesus, we learn to heal, teach, learn, speak, listen, and most of all, love all our fellow sisters and brothers.

Mar 20, 20214 min read

Dismantling Systemic Sin

Our call in the face of suffering is to do what God did: send Love.

Mar 14, 20215 min read

The Cross: Suffering Reclaimed

The cross is where resurrection is conceived. The cross is where hope is born.

Mar 7, 20215 min read

We Can Do Hard Things

When our highest value is productivity, we dehumanize ourselves, which is to say we separate ourselves from God.

Feb 28, 20216 min read

Trusting God in a Time of Uncertainty

To truly be close to God we need to be able to trust in God. We cannot exercise trust when we are only surrounded by certitude.

Feb 21, 20213 min read

Release & Respite

I invite us to ask ourselves, “What might I release during this time to invite respite?"

Feb 14, 20215 min read

Sickness. Demons. RESPITE. Ministry.

We don’t have to keep plugging away. We don’t have to keep moving at this exhausting pace. We need to slow down. We. Need. Respite.

Feb 7, 20215 min read

Paul Does Not Want to be Your Idol

Above all, Paul was trying to remind the communities he wrote to what every Christian’s anchor should be: love.

Jan 31, 20215 min read

Following Jesus is Radical

That’s what we do as a Christian community: we seek the roots, we find Jesus there, and we let him change every part of us.

Jan 24, 20215 min read

Choosing Jesus in a Time of Fear

God wants to be in relationship with us: reaching out to us and inviting us to reach out to God - even in our scariest times.

Jan 17, 20214 min read

Insurrection: A Crisis of Belonging

If our baptism doesn’t compel us to live into the values Jesus taught, then it is meaningless. Our faith is empty.

Jan 10, 20216 min read

Will You Follow?

A sermon by The Rev. Danáe M. Ashley shared by Deacon Laurel.

Jan 3, 20211 min read

When We Are Rendered Helpless, God Breaks Through

In Jesus, we know that God finds us through our vulnerability.

Dec 24, 20204 min read

Here Am I

The fact is God calls and uses ordinary and flawed me and ordinary and flawed you.

Dec 20, 20205 min read