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

Date: August 29, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 23:5 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Next week Bill will preach the last sermon in our “How to Love the World Again” series which pairs poetry with each verse of Psalm 23. Today we are delighted to be blessing our children and youth as they return to school. Psalm 23 is very familiar—Kenilworth

Date: August 22, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 23:4b | Reverend Christine V. Hides

  Last week Katie took us on a hike through the Valley of Shadows in our verse by verse journey through Psalm 23 which Bill, Katie and I pair with poetry and reflections from the recent book How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope. Today

Date: July 18, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 82 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Psalm 82 A Plea for Justice God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the

Date: April 18, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 1 | Reverend Christine V. Hides

Bill, Katie, and I are excited to begin a new sermon series beginning today. Each week we will highlight one of the groups extraordinary, faithful individuals, whose faces shine through the Malott chapel windows upstairs. The title of this sermon series is taken from the eulogy honoring today’s

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