10th Sunday after Pentecost

July 28, 2024

CALL TO WORSHIP
We gather to worship the One who, by the power at work within us, is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine.
To God be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever.

—Ephesians 3:20-21

Christian Unity

Sermon for the 9th Sunday after Pentecost

July 21, 2024

I think I’ve told you all how certain elders have complained to me that I choose very unpleasant scriptures on the Sundays they’re signed up to preside—scriptures that are violent, or about sin or the devil. When they complain, I always tell them, “At least I didn’t give you a passage about circumcision!”

Well, if that were to happen—

9th Sunday after Pentecost

July 21, 2024

CALL TO WORSHIP

In Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near.

For he is our peace; in his flesh he has broken down the dividing wall.  

We are no longer strangers and aliens, but citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 

The Backstory

Sermon for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost
July 14, 2024

It’s interesting what we inherit from our parents. By the end of his life, my dad still had all his mental faculties. But he was always quiet, and the older he got, the more halting his speech was. And I notice that in myself. I have trouble thinking of the actual words I want to say sometimes, and it reminds me of my dad.

8th Sunday after Pentecost

July 14, 2024 

CALL TO WORSHIP
The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it.
God has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers.
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in God's house?
Those who have clean hands and pure hearts, those who embrace the truth.

Hometown Boy

Sermon for the 7th Sunday after Pentecost
July 7, 2024

Do you remember the first time you did your job—the first time you actually carried out your calling in life? Every profession is unique, of course. But preaching hits different. It’s something very public that comes out of something that’s intensely private. And in many cases, it’s performed in front of the preacher’s family and many other people who watched them grow up.