Embodiment and Healing – Sixth Sunday After Pentecost (Mark 5: 21-43)
At our church visioning retreat back in early May of this year, we discussed how we envisioned our mission for the church going forward. Three words emerged as the primary […]
Category: Sermons
Loving Our Wild Neighbors – Holy Ground Sermon Series Week 4 (Job 12: 7-10)
Scott Thompson was in his fishing boat late one night. At this point he was miles off the coast of California. It was dark that night. Almost pitch black because […]
How We Relate to Creation is How We Relate to the Creator – Holy Ground Sermon Series Week 3 (Proverbs 8: 1-3, 22-31)
So far in this Holy Ground sermon series, looking at the importance of creation care, we have seen that our connection to nature has a lot to do with, and […]
Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary – Holy Ground Series Week 2 (Exodus 3: 1-6)
Last weekend I spent some time at the open house at Camp Crystal. This is the campground owned by the Disciples of Christ in Michigan. You may recall that it […]
God Creates, We Steward – Holy Ground Sermon Series Week One (Psalm 8)
This week we will be starting a six-week worship series called Holy Ground. The theme of this series of worship services and sermons and Bible studies is creation care. These […]
Dry Bones and The Breath of God – Pentecost Sunday (Ezekiel 37: 1-14)
Today is Pentecost. The day that some refer to as the church’s birthday. We remember and we celebrate the story from Acts 2 in which the Holy Spirit came upon […]
The Christian in the World of Work Window: How Faith Works (Deuteronomy 15: 7-11)
This morning, we will take a look at and reflect on the fifth and final stained-glass window in our sanctuary. It is located over in the southeast corner, behind the […]
The Church in the World Window: Somewhere a Place for Us (Romans 10: 13-15)
We are now in our fourth week of looking at and reflecting on the stained-glass windows in our sanctuary. So far, we have looked at the three windows across the […]
The Ecumenical Window: No Creed but Christ (Ephesians 2: 17-22)
This week as we continue our series of sermons and reflections on the stained-glass windows in our sanctuary, we will take a look at the window in the corner to […]
The Window of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ): A Movement for Wholeness… (Acts 2: 38-39, 41-45)
This week we will continue our reflections on the stained-glass windows of our sanctuary by looking at the window in our southwest corner. This window was donated in the memory […]