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Easter Sunday Sermon by Jeff Gaines on Luke 24.1-12 recorded on April 21, 2019

Sermon by The Rev. Jenna Meyers recorded April 14, 2019. This sermon is a reflection given on Palm/Passion Sunday in conversation with Luke 19:28-40, Isaiah 50:4-9a and Luke 22:14-23:56.

Sermon by Joan Huff on Isaiah 43.16-21 & Mark 10.17-26 recorded on the 5th Sunday in Lent, April 7, 2019

Sermon by Jeff Gaines on Luke15.1-3;11b-32 recorded on March 31, 2019.

Sermon by The Rev. Jenna Meyers recorded March 24, 2019. This sermon is a reflection on Isaiah 55:1-9 and Luke 13:1-9. Trying to find our ground again, we are asked the question, “Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?”

Sermon by Melvin Fujikawa recorded on March 17, 2019.

Sermon by Jeff Gaines on Luke 3.1-14 recorded on March 10, 2019.

Sermon by The Rev. Jenna Meyers recorded February 24, 2019. This sermon is a reflection on Genesis 45: 3-11, 15 and Luke 6: 27-38, and is in conversation with scholars,Vaughn Crowe-Tipton, Allen Hilton, and Francois Bovon. Together, we explore the command to love our enemies and the reward we find in the process.

Sermon by The Rev. Jenna Meyers recorded February 10, 2019. This sermon is a reflection on Isaiah 6:1-8 and Luke 5:1-11. Entering Isaiah’s vision of God in the temple and of the miracle catch of fish in Simon’s boat, we are invited to welcome the voices that rise from the deep waters of our lives enabling us to keep going.

Sermon by The Rev. Victor Floyd recorded February 3, 2019. This sermon is a reflection on Jeremiah 1:4-10 and 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. Listen with us as we are reminded “love cannot be killed or swept aside.”

Sermon by The Rev. Jenna Meyers recorded January 27, 2019. This sermon is a reflection on Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 and Luke 4:14-21. Reflecting on the rebuilding of Judah after Babylonian exile and the spirit of the Year of Jubilee, the question is asked, “What kind of community would you participate in creating?”

Sermon by The Rev. Dale Trunk recorded January 20, 2019. This sermon is a reflection on 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 and John 2:1-11. When we find ourselves in Morticia’s house, in an inner landscape of death, passivity, and barrenness, the narrative of Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana calls us to a place of rebirth and abundance.

Sermon by Tom Glenn on Matthew 2.1-12 and Isaiah 60.1-6 on Epiphany Sunday, January 6, 2019

Sermon by Jeff Gaines on Colossians 3.12-17 & Luke 2. 41-52

Sermon by The Rev. Jenna Meyers recorded December 24, 2018. This sermon is a reflection given on Christmas Eve in conversation with John 1:1-14 and Jesuit priest, Fr. Greg Boyle.

Sermon by Jeff Gaines on Luke1.39-55 recorded on December 23, 2019

Sermon by The Rev. Jenna Meyers recorded the third Sunday of Advent, December 16, 2018. This sermon is a reflection on Zephaniah 3:14-20a and Luke 3:7-18, and is in conversation with Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried and the children’s Christmas Pageant at Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church. Listening to the ancient’s searching for where God is and how God might still be for us when trag...

Sermon by Scott Clark on Luke 1.67-79 and Luke 3.1-6 recorded on Sunday, December 9, 2019

Sermon by Lisa Fullam recorded on Sunday, December 2, 2018

Sermon by Jeff Gaines on Psalm 132.1-12 (Psalms for Praying, Nan Merrill) and John 18.33-38 recorded on November 25, 2018.

Sermon by Deanna Christmas on Mark 13.1-8 recorded on November 18, 2018

Sermon by The Rev. Jenna Meyers recorded Stewardship Sunday, November 11, 2018. This sermon is a reflection on Mark 12: 38-44, taking another look at the story of the widow who gave all she had to live on, and those who took it.

Sermon by The Rev. Jenna Meyers recorded October 28, 2018. This sermon is a reflection on Psalm 34:1-8 and Mark 10:46-52. Playing with the ancient practice of being able to hold more than one point of view, we look anew to the story of Bartimaeus, the blind beggar.

“Sermon by Jeff Gaines on Mark 9.36-40 recorded on October 7, 2018. Since we’re all going to get along in the afterlife, we might as well start practicing it now for God wouldn’t have it any other way.

Sermon by Jeff Gaines on Mark 10.35.-45 recorded on October 21, 2018. Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what? The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry