foreside Scripture: Matthew 15:10-28Fresh from teaching the difference between ritual purity and goodness, Jesus encounters a Canaanite woman pleading for health for her daughter. His first answer wounds us, but the woman’s insistence on the power and grace of God’s care pours out healing from division, and from all that ails us.
Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33Jesus comes to his disciples walking on the water. Peter longs to join him, but finds himself sinking. When we find ourselves in the deep end of life, is that a conviction of our faith? Or, is the faith that we are called to carry one in which we are not guaranteed we … Read more
Scripture: Genesis 21:8-21In Genesis, we are told a complicated story of the sons of Abraham. As Ishmael and his mother, Hagar, are cast out, God hears their pleas. What wholeness is waiting for us as we begin to imagine the prayer lives of people outside our own tradition, and that God hears the deep needs … Read more
Scripture: Philippians 4:4-9, Luke 2: 10-11 The Rev. Charles Erb brings a word on the joy God invites us into on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of his ordination.
Scripture: Acts 2:41-47The Rev. Susan Gilpin preaches on a day when Kristen and Audrey Farnham also present on their recent trip to and work in Guatemala with From Houses to Homes. In Acts, as the early church begins to spread far and wide, it is the generosity of the Holy Spirit which marks them. Today, … Read more