John 20:1-18 This sermon concludes our Lent series on “Covenant: The Tie that Binds.” Here in this world, dying and living, we are each other’s bread and wine. Those words from the hymn “What is this place” kept going through my head as I went on my morning walks this past week. In fact, those…
This sermon continues our Lent series, “Covenant: The Ties that Bind.” By Joanna Lawrence Shenk and Sheri Hostetler Mark 11:1-11 Joanna: What does it mean to be part of Jesus’ prophetic, theatrical, peace parade today? What does it mean to follow Rabbi Yeshua, a Palestinian Jew, who was living under Roman occupation? What does it…
Jim Brenneman preached this sermon for the fourth Sunday of our Lent series, “Covenant: The Tie That Binds.” Things fall apart; the center cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. . . Surely some revelation is at hand; . . .now I know that Twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare…
This is the first sermon in our Lent series, “Covenant: The Tie that Binds,” during which we explore what it means to be a covenanted community now, after the many changes of the past several years. This sermon was accompanied by a slide show of photos from our community’s life together. Please contact Sheri at…
Sermon by Jim Brenneman Deuteronomy 30: 11-16, 19a I. On this fourth Sunday of the New Year as we continue to consider choices we made in the past, some great, some not-so-great, we have opportunity to consider making different choices in the year to come. Some of our choices this year will be quite consequential…
Mark 1:14-20 One of the people who helped me reclaim Christianity when I was in my early 30s was Marcus Borg, a New Testament and Jesus scholar, who happened to be a close friend of my mentor Marianne Niesen. He actually achieved a measure of mainstream fame (for a New Testament scholar) for a series…
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