Portsmouth Union Church Sermon Podcast

Rev. Dr. Brett Webb-Mitchell continues our summer series with a message of hope from Ezekiel 37:1-14.  

Rev. Dr. Leroy Barber continues our summer sermon series with a message called "Are You Awake?" from 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11.

Rev. Courtney McHill kicks off our Summer Sermon Mix-Tape series with a message about prayer called "What's the Point of Prayer?" from Luke 18:9-14.

In the middle of Lent, in the middle of the book of Lamentations, we find stanzas all about God's faithful lovingkindness.  It's a turning point--this word of hope--and this week Pastor Andy explores how turning points happen in our own grief work.  

Pastor Jules continues our lenten sermon series in Lamentations with a powerful message about God's endlessly gracious willingness to hear us when we are angry and grieving, and what we can learn about how to do the same.

Pastor Andy begins our Lenten series on the book of Lamentations with an introduction about what these ancient Hebrew poems have to tell us about grief and lament.   Note: In the middle of this message, Pastor Andy gets a little mixed when it comes to months that major events happened in his life.  He apologizes for any confusion :) 

Guest Speaker Linda Jo Devlaeminck Executive Director of Community of Hope spoke today about the work of her non-profit and Matthew 25:31-45.

In the last of The Faith We Really Sing sermon series we talked about how God is like a metaphor in how we experience and worship God in song.

In this sermon we talk about how Jesus is used in songs as a single person's savior yet Jesus is a collective savior to all of us. Jesus belongs to each of us together not just separately as individuals. 

Pastor Andy continues our series "The Faith We Really Sing" with a talk about the atonement--namely that there's more than one way to think about why Jesus died on the cross, and the most popular way definitely isn't the best way. 

Pastor Andy continues our series "The Faith We REALLY Sing" with a fun and uplifting message about how Jesus doesn't really fit the mold of our modern-day comic book superhero--despite what we sometimes sing in church.  

This week we continue our series "The Faith We REALLY Sing" with a message from Pastor Jules about the trouble with singing about and thinking about Jesus as our "angry dad".  

Pastors Jules and Andy talk together about the reality of “Jesus is my boyfriend” songs and why they can be helpful, but also problematic, and what they say about our desire for genuine intimacy with the divine.