Date: May 2, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 74 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

O God, why do you cast us off forever? Your foes have roared within your holy place; they set up their emblems there. At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes. And then, with hatchets and hammers, they smashed all its carved work. They

Date: April 25, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 27 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

Howard Thurman, author of the Opening Prayer for the Easter Season, was a Christian prophetic mystic and pastor for the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King famously carried with him wherever he went a Bible, a copy of the constitution and a copy of Howard Thurman’s book, “Jesus

Date: April 4, 2021

Bible Text: John 20:1–18 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

According to Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus baffled Mary Magdalene. “I don’t know how to love him,” she sings. But that isn’t really true, is it? She did know how to love him, maybe better than anyone else in the Gospels besides Mother Mary herself. She

Date: March 28, 2021

Bible Text: John 11:28–57; John 12:12–19 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come to the

Date: March 14, 2021

Bible Text: John 5:1–9 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

The inspiration for our Lenten Sermon Series at Kenilworth Union comes from Paul Anthony Jones’ The Cabinet of Calm: Soothing Words for Troubled Times (2020), where this British author compiles 51 mostly extinct English words that for various reasons faded from our common vocabulary over the centuries,

Date: March 7, 2021

Bible Text: John 4:1–42 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

I think the story of the Samaritan Woman at the Well is so beloved because in this single vivid snapshot of a wounded woman, John shows us how Jesus constantly, relentlessly, routinely reaches out to touch and heal the least, the last, the lost, the lame, the leper, the loser, and the

Date: February 28, 2021

Bible Text: John 1:43–51 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

The inspiration for our Lenten Sermon Series at Kenilworth Union comes from Paul Anthony Jones’ The Cabinet of Calm: Soothing Words for Troubled Times (2020), where  this British author compiles 51 mostly extinct English words that for various reasons faded from our common vocabulary over the centuries, but which might nonetheless speak a word of

Date: February 14, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 29; Mark 9:2–9 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

A Psalm of David Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name;    worship the Lord in holy splendor. The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over mighty waters. The voice of

Date: February 7, 2021

Bible Text: Psalm 91 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

Assurance of God’s Protection You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence; he