Date: October 2, 2022

Bible Text: Job 33:12–33 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

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Date: August 28, 2022

Bible Text: 1 Kings 5–8; 2 Chronicles 2–8 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Date: August 21, 2022

Bible Text: Exodus 25–31, 35–40 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Date: July 31, 2022

Bible Text: Luke 12:13–21 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

This is the final sermon in a series Katie, Bill, and I are preaching using the lectionary passages in Luke in conversation with John O'Donohue's blessings from “To Bless the Space Between Us.” This week we are considering “States of the Heart,” as we read one of

Date: May 29, 2022

Bible Text: John 17:20–26 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

This is the last in the Easter sermon series Katie and I are preaching called A Collective Murmuration, drawing on the metaphor of a flock of starlings flying in concert. Katie has said that “the synchronicity of starlings lives in the realm of miracle, especially as we

Date: May 22, 2022

Bible Text: John 14:23–29 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Today is Children’s Day. For about seven decades, third graders at Kenilworth Union have learned the Ten Commandments, 23rd Psalm, the Beatitudes, Lord’s Prayer, Greatest Commandment, and Books of the Bible by heart. This year is the first year since 2019 that we have

Date: March 6, 2022

Bible Text: Ecclesiastes 11:1–6 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Lent is marked by peculiar disciplines. We begin by placing ashes on our foreheads. We help the children put away the alleluias so that the notes ring with magnified joy on Easter morning. We might fast or take up a new spiritual practice. Lent is an invitation

Date: February 6, 2022

Bible Text: 5:27–39 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

During the season of Epiphany Bill, Katie and I are exploring Jesus’ early ministry to see what we can learn about Christ-like virtue during this time of pandemic, racial-discord, and divisiveness. Borrowing a phrase from Reinhold Niebuhr who called Jesus the Impossible Possibility, this sermon series is

Date: January 2, 2022

Bible Text: Matthew 2:1–12 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

During Advent and Christmastime we are preaching on Certain Semi-Sacred Symbols of the Season—Candy Canes, Snow, Evergreens, Donkeys. While each of these tangible items illuminates an aspect of our multi-faceted God, none of them have been mentioned in the biblical nativity narratives until today. Today our symbol

Date: October 3, 2021

Bible Text: Acts 2:42–47 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Bill Katie and I are in the middle of a new sermon series, using the book of acts as a blueprint for the birth of the early church and the (re)birth with the re in parentheses of the church as we emerge from the pandemic. In Acts