Sermons

Ashes are not the end. Ashes or the stardust of God's creating, are reminders of our beginning points in this human form that we know. But, being formed from God's stardust, has some expectations and responsibilities.

How might it change our hearing and understanding of the texts if we sought out still other voices whose training, experiences, and traditions were largely different than most of ours?

May our ears and hearts be opened to the new and different sounds of hope and love in God's beloved community. 

Keep focused not on what society says is acceptable or normative but what has been "revealed" to us down through the ages about radical inclusivity.

We might want to take a look at what it really means to make "FIRST IMPRESSIONS" and how lasting they become. 

The authors are struggling with the idea of group identity, and asking where (and who? and how?) is God in all this

We are in the Season of Epiphany, so let’s see what insights — what light bulb moments — we might encounter together.

We must put behind us the pettiness of division/divisiveness, exclusion and fear our world continues to perpetuate and look for ways to unite and care for the least, the last and the left out. 

How are we so different and out of the ordinary?

What does it mean to travel in a different direction than originally planned?