Acts 2:42-47 Last week we wandered together inside Psalm 23. We ate the green grass. We walked through the dark valley. We felt the protection of the Good Shepherd. And we held the tension the psalm itself holds — between abundance and suffering. I want to stay inside that tension today, because this passage from…
Earth Day Sermon — Psalm 23 Our Scripture today is Bobby McFerrin’s version of “The 23rd Psalm.” This setting was written by Bobby in honor of his mother, so he refers to God as she. Dave Worm — who will be wish us for worship two weeks from now with Ann Speyer — is singing…
Easter Sunday John 20: 1, 11-15 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. She stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb, and she…
Jerusalem My first day in Israel/Palestine, I understand why the psalms speak of going up to Jerusalem—why the psalm we just heard for or call to worship is called a Psalm of Ascent. It isn’t metaphorical language. It’s geography. From Tel Aviv, where we land at sea level, to Jerusalem is a climb of about…
The following is a guest sermon/drash given by Rabbi Howard Steiermann of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav. Psalm 137 I would like to share with you the story about how I got interested in, and empowered to, write my own rendition of the biblical psalms. As I am used to delivering sermons based on Torah text (the…
On Dec. 7, we celebrated Sheri’s quarter-century of ministry through scripture, song, art, reflections, poetry, pies and dancing! Below are reflections given by Randy Yee and Eli Ramer, plus a poem written by Bekah Puddington for the occasion. Randy Yee’s Reflection Hi my name is Randy, and I’m a recovering churchgoer. I stopped going to…
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