Sermons from May 2025

Every once in a while, we have stories in our lives where the Holy Spirit was up to something, and the Spirit leads us in a completely different direction than we expected or were planning, and it shapes our story forevermore. I’ve had a few moments like that in my life, but the one that sticks out to me in the middle of wedding planning, is that I was almost committed to…

It can be difficult to hear different perspectives, especially ones that challenge what we so deeply hold to be true. We don’t always know how to reconcile the reality that some people’s experiences are different from our own. There may be small disagreements about the “correct” way to do something, that we can live with, for example, I apparently cannot load a dishwasher…

In many ways, it feels fitting that we would get these readings this weekend, as we gathered yesterday to remember the life of Carla. As I mentioned yesterday, her family talked about her deep love of her faith and this world, from her knitting to her guardianship roles, she was always caring for her loved ones and her community. We see a reflection of that today with the…

We talk a lot about call language in the church! Whether that is in terms of our current setting and how God is calling us both individually and communally, the fact that the position of clergy is spoken of using this language of call, or the stories we share from Scripture like the call stories of the prophets to speak on behalf of God to the people. This language of…