On Christmas Eve, the Rev. George Adamik offers a different way of understanding the Incarnation: “God’s Incarnation wasn’t to somehow fix things; it was always the Creator’s intention to send the Christ into our midst.”
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Sermons (Page 42)
At the family-friendly service on Christmas Eve, the Rev. Carr Holland offers a message for children (and adults) about God’s love.
On the Fourth Sunday of Advent, the Rev. Javier Almendárez Bautista reflects on the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38): “The way may not open for you and I by way of a burning bush or a pillar of cloud and fire. It may be that your call, much like Mary’s call, will come in the ordinary events of life.”
The Rev. Carr Holland considers Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 and John 1:6-8,19-28: “It is so easy when you are sifting rubble or old bones to forget that sometimes there is a hope, a dream of good that’s waiting to be found there.”
The Rev. George Adamik reflects on Isaiah 40:1-11 and Mark 1:1-8: “Advent is our life. It’s not just a season. It’s a call to us to remember that we’re a watchful people, ever vigilant.”
The Rev. Javier Almendárez Bautista contemplates the beginning of Advent: “The early Christian community had a tradition of observing the Lord’s day on Sunday, the day of Christ’s resurrection, instead of the last day of the week, the Sabbath. They used to call this the eighth day. The cycle of 7 days of creation, broken as it is, redeemed as the inbreaking of a new day shines forth every time we gather together. The eighth day of creation, when things will be made new.”
The Rev. Carr Holland reflects on Matthew 25:31-46 and the Feast of Christ the King: “In every moment, when we connect responsively to another’s need, we not only are serving Christ but it is as if we’re becoming Christ. We represent him in the world… The flow of God’s care almost always passes through a human being.”
The Rev. George Adamik considers a few ways to “inwardly digest” the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30): “Do we take the gifts we’ve been given and bury, hide, or protect them, keeping them safe, or are we called to go beyond ourselves and make a difference?”
The Rev. Javier Almendárez Bautista reflects on Matthew 25:1-13 as we approach the end of the liturgical year: “Every ending is a kind of new beginning, my friends. Every ending demands us to look deep within and find the light of Christ burning forth, even in the darkest night.”
The Rev. George Adamik discusses five major roles for the contemporary church based on Avery Dulles’s classic work.