Text: Lamentations 3:19-33 When I was in high school, my youth group took a summer mission trip to the northwest part of our country. I went to a larger church in Cedar Rapids, so we filled an entire bus with our students and chaperones. Our ultimate destination was Seattle, but along the way we stopped…
A Resilient Foundation
Text: Matthew 7:24-25; Ephesians 3:14-19 Who holds you up? What keeps you from toppling? In the midst of storms and fire and viruses and racism and accusation and conflict, how do you not fall apart? When you are juggling kids and work and zoom meetings and the dog and the lawn needs mowed what are…
You Have (Are) a Gift
Text: Romans 12:3-8 As we start off this morning, I want you to find a blank piece of paper… or if you are on Zoom or Facebook, type in the comments or chat window. I want you to think of one thing that you are personally good at. What is one thing that you know…
The Fragility of our Connection
Text: Philippians 2:1-8 Arches National Park is perhaps one of the most iconic and picturesque of the spots we will visit. Three hundred million years ago, give or take, this land lay beneath an ocean. With the ebb and flow of the waters, salt deposits built up hundreds of feet thick. Eventually, pressure turned some…
The Breath of the Spirit (2.0)
note… the original sermon for Pentecost was written over 10 days ago because of staff vacations and our own pre-recording for worship in the age of Covid-19. But I couldn’t rest with this sermon and felt the Spirit keep nudging me to talk about how breath this past week has been stolen from so many……
Do you love me?
Text: John 14:15-21 If you love me, you will keep my commandments. If you LOVE me, you will keep my commandments. Do you love God? Do you love Jesus? My heart wants to say, YES!, I do! Of course I do! I love God with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength! Don’t I? Do…
They Recognized His Voice
Text: John 10:1-4,10-11; 21:1-14 In these weeks after Easter, I’ve been spending a lot of my time reading and thinking about the resurrection appearances of Jesus. They seem like a natural way to spend our time… as we find ourselves looking for signs of resurrection and hope in the midst of our own time of…
Behind Closed Doors
Text: John 20:18-20 Almost every Easter, we focus on the tomb. We focus on the women. We spend all of our time and attention on that glorious moment when they discover the tomb is empty and Jesus is alive and they have a story to tell. But this morning, I want to focus on the…