Date: October 25, 2020

Bible Text: Matthew 22:34–36 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

The Greatest Commandment When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ In her introductory essay for a poetry anthology, Eavan Boland tells the story

Date: August 30, 2020

Bible Text: Exodus 15:20–21, Luke 1:46–56 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Songs matter. That’s the thrust of this sermon series. And so today, we’ll look briefly at two songs of justice from scripture, songs that celebrate God’s presence in the midst of impossible situations, songs that celebrate God’s work for justice, making possible what had once been thought impossible. The Song of Miriam Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s

Date: August 23, 2020

Bible Text: 1 Kings 19:11–13 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

1 Kings 19:11–13 The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there

Date: August 9, 2020

Bible Text: Psalm 148 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

that every part of this cosmos we call home is part of the great praise band, the infinite chancel choir, with a song of rejoicing sung by the universe in its entirety. God writes the Gospel, not in the bible alone, but on the trees, flowers, clouds and stars. God’s song of love can be

Date: August 2, 2020

Bible Text: Genesis 1:2 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

  In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. —Genesis 1:2  

Date: April 19, 2020

Bible Text: Confirmation | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon. “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”  —John 20:29 Gospel Lesson: John 20:19–29 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week,

Date: March 29, 2020

Bible Text: Luke 4:14–21 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon. The mind is an old crow Who knows only to gather dead twigs, Then take them back to the vacancy Between the branches of the parent tree And entwine them around the emptiness With silence and unfailing patience Until what was fallen, withered and lost

Date: February 23, 2020

Bible Text: Luke 9:28–36 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon. Just as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here; —Luke 9:33   I have long felt disconnected from this mountain top story: Jesus’ transfiguration is unfamiliar, often skipped over and full of mystical, science-fiction tinged

Date: February 2, 2020

Bible Text: Psalm 139 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

8 a.m. Psalm 139 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my

Date: October 6, 2019

Bible Text: Ecclesiastes 3:1–8; John 1:1–5 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon.   For everything there is a season, and time for every matter under heaven   —Ecclesiastes 3:1   Ecclesiastes 3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a