Scripture: Luke 14:1, 7-14Jesus attends a dinner and notices the temptation to seek places of honor and power close to the head of the table. How might we, even as the church, have been a part of the same sorts of temptations? How can we be a church that gives up our seat at the … Read more
Scripture: Isaiah 58:9b-14The prophet Isaiah invites us to look to the foundations of our spiritual practices: is it enough to personally keep the sabbath? Or should we strive to create a community in which all are seen as created in the image of God and worthy of rest?
Scripture: Luke 12:49-56The Rev. Kate Dalton joins us in worship and asks us, “How do we take the Bible seriously?” and, “What does it mean to be a Christian?” As we read a story of a Jesus who says that he has come to “bring division,” how do we engage, rather than avoid, the tensions … Read more
Scripture: Hebrews 1-3, 8-16What we now call the Letter to the Hebrews began as a sermon to a people setting off on a new way, reinterpreting scripture and story through a new lens of faith. So we hear of Abraham and Sarah leaving home for an uncertain future in God’s promise. It is a promise … Read more
Scripture: Luke 12:13-21What are we “invested” in? As Jesus tells a story about a man with a lot of stuff, but apparently no one to share it with, we might ask how we “store up” connection and community which yield life, rather than the hungers of isolation.