Date: May 22, 2022
Bible Text: John 14:23–29 | Reverend Christine V. Hides
Today is Children’s Day. For about seven decades, third graders at Kenilworth Union have learned the Ten Commandments, 23rd Psalm, the Beatitudes, Lord’s Prayer, Greatest Commandment, and Books of the Bible by heart. This year is the first year since 2019 that we haveDate: May 15, 2022
Bible Text: John 13:31–35 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
It is the season of Easter—this springtime season which asks us to draw near to the resurrected Christ. This feels easy enough today: the whole world feels resurrection-adjacent as we emerge out of winter. Thank God for these beautiful warm spring days, everything green, and verdant. Today’s scriptureDate: May 8, 2022
Bible Text: John 10:22–30 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
Christine Hides and I are in the middle of an Easter sermon series called “A Collective Murmuration,” drawing on the metaphor Julie Danilek and Mignon Dupepe used for this year’s Outreach Benefit: A Murmuration of Hope. Today’s sermon, A Murmuration of Love, extends that theme. The stunning sunsetDate: May 1, 2022
Bible Text: John 21:1–19 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
Christine Hides and I are preaching an Easter sermon series called “A Collective Murmuration.” Murmuration is the word given to the swooping, diving, fluttering flock of starlings at dawn and dusk. “No one is in the lead, everyone is in the lead,” coming to agreementDate: April 24, 2022
Bible Text: John 20:19–31 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
This scripture passage takes place on Easter Evening, after Mary and the others have encountered Jesus in the garden, the tomb open and empty, the mystery of the risen Christ. So that evening, the disciples gather, still uncertain and afraid. Here is their story from John chapterDate: April 17, 2022
Bible Text: Matthew 28:1–15 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
If you’ve been around this Lent and Easter, you would know we’ve been preaching a sermon series called, Lent in Plain Sight, in which were looking at common objects from the passion story: dust, bread, coins, shoes, thorns, cross, oil, and today stone. After the sabbath,Date: April 14, 2022
Bible Text: John 13:1–20 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
On Maundy Thursday, we walk the way of Jesus. We eat at his table; we sing his song of sorrow. We witness his death. We find our way to his tomb. Tonight we begin with the foot washing. With Jesus bending before each disciple, a towel aroundDate: April 10, 2022
Bible Text: Matthew 21:1–11; 26:6–13 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
So the sight Matilda reminded you that this is Palm Sunday today, Christine told us beautifully the story of Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. You heard that the crowds laid down their coats, cut branches off the trees and laid them in the road, soDate: April 3, 2022
Bible Text: Matthew 27:32–37 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
As they went out, they came upon a man from Cyrene named Simon; they compelled this man to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but whenDate: March 27, 2022
Bible Text: Matthew 27:27–31 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
At Kenilworth Union Church we are preaching a sermon series called Lent in Plain Sight, devotion in ten objects. We’re looking a common object such as bread, coins, shoes, and today, thorns. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they