Date: February 17, 2021

Bible Text: Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

“Remember you are dust.” we say to ourselves on the threshold of Lent, as if we could overlook the frailty and fragility of life during a pandemic.  The phases and tiers of reopening, the positivity rates and ICU bed availability, so many numbers that rise and fall and spiral as the months wear on into

Date: January 31, 2021

Bible Text: Matthew 18:21–35 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

During the season of Epiphany, Bill and I are preaching the sermon series, Help, Thanks, Wow, the Lord’s Prayer for Our Times—inspired by both the prayers of Anne Lammott and Jesus of Nazareth. Today we reach the fifth petition of the Lord’s Prayer—“And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” The

Date: November 26, 2020

Bible Text: Deuteronomy 8:7–18 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land where you may eat bread

Date: January 5, 2020

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

Click here to listen to this sermon.   Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage. —Psalm 74:10   Today’s reading will be familiar to you. According to my count we have shared the

Date: May 12, 2019

Bible Text: John 10:22–30 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Click here to listen to this sermon. My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. —John 10:27   Our lectionary reading today returns us to events preceding Jesus’ death and resurrection. It is a response to mounting questions about Jesus identity originating from the act of healing a