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 lostDate: March 22, 2020
Bible Text: Luke 15:1–7 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. Luke 15:1–7 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “Which one of you, havingDate: March 15, 2020
Bible Text: Luke 8:26–37 (selected verses) | Reverend Dr. Jo Forrest
Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you. Click here to listen to this sermon. In January, Bill conceived of this Lenten sermon series to consider the defects of Jesus—those character traits society teaches to avoid in the pursuit of excellence—yet create the good lifeDate: March 8, 2020
Bible Text: Luke 12:22–34 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. —Luke 12:24 Last week I told you about Cardinal Francis-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận, who spent 13 years in a Vietnamese prison, nine in solitary confinement. HeDate: March 1, 2020
Bible Text: Luke 12:12–21 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.Date: February 26, 2020
Bible Text: Genesis 2:5–8; John 8:2–11 | Reverend Dr. Jo Forrest
Just as in English, if we were to play Scrabble in Hebrew you could experience how this language builds words, one letter at a time, with related meaning. When the words are read aloud their consonants echo, you subconsciously understand without explanation their connectedness. The word dam, meaning,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 tingedDate: February 16, 2020
Bible Text: Genesis 2:4–14; Revelation 22:1–5 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. CAMERON DAVIS & WILLIAM A. EVERTSBERG William A. Evertsberg I am so honored to be sharing this sermon with my good friend Cameron Davis, who is sometimes called the Water Czar of the Great Lakes. Cam is a Commissioner for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District in GreaterDate: February 9, 2020
Bible Text: Deuteronomy 4:9–24; Malachi 3:2–3 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. For the Lord is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap, who will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness. —Malachi 3:2–3 It’s remarkable to notice how often inDate: 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