The Rev. Javier A. Bautista shares a homily for the Great Vigil of Easter (Matthew 28:1-10).
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Sermons (Page 46)
On Good Friday, the Rev. George Adamik reflects on John 18:1-19:42: “What Jesus did in his life is to try to make us aware that sin is not just about individual sin, but it’s about a need for our creation to seek healing — the corporate sin that we’re a part of.”
The Rev. Carr Holland discusses the Washing of the Feet, the Last Supper, and the unknowable depth of God’s love (John 13:1-17, 31b-35).
The Rev. Carr Holland considers Matthew 21:1-11 and Matthew 26:14- 27:66 on Palm Sunday: “We gather here today and this week to remember that there is a cost to human choice, a cost to what we look past or ignore, the moments when we lose touch with what it is to gather up in the intended goodness of God.”
The Rev. Javier Almendárez Bautista discusses John 11:1-45 and the raising of Lazarus: “Healing may not happen in the way that you expect it. It may be that your grief feels too great, the pain too strong, and yet God is not a God who avoids this pain but joins us within it.”
The Rev. George Adamik offers a meditation on John 9:1-41, sharing his thoughts along with the Gospel reading. How can we see people before us, not in categories or demographics, but for who they are?
The Rev. Carr Holland reflects on John 4:5-42 and Romans 5:1-11: “We are each given a life. We’re invited to look out our eye sockets and see beyond the surface, to see one another by the well, to ponder each other’s need of care and wisdom, and together, to act to deepen life.”
The Rev. Tony Wike contemplates Abraham’s calling and the lessons for the second Sunday in Lent (Genesis 12:1-4a; Romans 4:1-5, 13-17; and John 3:1-17).
On the First Sunday of Lent, the Rev. Candy Snively discusses Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness in Matthew 4:1-11.
The Rev. George Adamik reflects on Matthew 17:1-9, Christ’s transfiguration, and racial justice: “How can we, like Peter, James, and John, be transfigured? How can we see something in a new way? How can we be changed in our lives so that we can go forward together to change our world?”