Sermons

Love. It seems so simple —  to abide in love — and yet we need Christ’s example. We need Christ’s abiding presence to embody it because it is so hard for us to receive it. So hard for us to get beyond ourselves to accept it. So hard for us to rise above the noise of our day to live

The Easter story is for everyone.  It is a story of new life emerging where there was little hope; a near impossibility of such a thing ever happening. Remember this story when the darkness feels like it is going to swallow you up. The light is coming. Today’s message is based on John 20:

Expectations are one of the hardest things to deal with as a human being. We can’t help but have them. We get used to life being a certain way and expect that it will always be like that. We put in work toward something with the expectation that a certain outcome will happen. We enter into

The niceness that Christians have taken to be our highest calling has us regularly avoiding conflicts both large and small and leaves us bereft of the skills to distinguish between petty acrimony and righteous anger, between misplaced indignation and anger as both gift and necessity.  Maybe