Date: January 19, 2020

Bible Text: Matthew 7:24–27 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

Click here to listen to this sermon. Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not

Date: January 12, 2020

Bible Text: Genesis1:1–13 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

Click here to listen to this sermon. And God said, 'Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the water that were gathered together he called Seas. And God

Date: December 29, 2019

Bible Text: Romans 8:18–25 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

Click here to listen to this reflection. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God. —Romans 8:19   God in Christ came to earth to redeem humanity from its brokenness, but in his letter to the church at Rome, Paul promises that all

Date: December 24, 2019

Bible Text: Luke 2:15–20 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

Click here to listen to this sermon.   to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. —Luke 2:11    Great teachers find creative ways to teach important and complicated truths. A Chemistry teacher I know teaches her science class by having her

Date: December 22, 2019

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

Click here to listen to this sermon.   And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth. —John 1:14   Most of us have little patience for dry abstractions. There are exceptions: CPA’s, actuaries, contract

Date: December 8, 2019

Bible Text: Psalm74:1–10 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

Click here to listen to this sermon. How long, O God… —Psalm 74:10 You don’t need a seminary education to guess that Psalm 74 is an anguished response to the destruction of Jerusalem about 600 years before the birth of Jesus. Perhaps it was written by a Jewish POW carted off to

Date: November 24, 2019

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

Click here to listen to this sermon. But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days. —Micah 5:2   ‘Catechetical’ is the adjectival

Date: November 3, 2019

Bible Text: Ephesians 2:14-22 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

Click here to listen to this sermon.   God of faithful surprises, throughout the ages you have made known your love in unexpected ways.   Community is one of the great, good, God-given gifts we need to be careful stewards of for the 80 or so years we occupy space on this earth.

Date: October 27, 2019

Bible Text: Isaiah 55:1–13 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

Click here to listen to this sermon. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy —Isaiah 55:2   We use the word ‘technology’ in two overlapping but distinct ways. In the older, broader sense, technology is anything human beings

Date: October 20, 2019

Bible Text: selected verses from Job 38–39 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg

Click here to listen to this sermon. Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? —Job 38:4   A long time ago, the word ‘Stewardship’, a meaningful and integral component of the Christian vocabulary, somehow got handcuffed to money. ‘Stewardship’ became a synonym for ‘fund-raising’. So this fall at