by Joanna Lawrence Shenk, this sermon is the fifth Sunday of our Lent series, “Covenant: The Tie That Binds.” Mark 6:7-13 “I live my life in widening circles,” says the poet Rilke. “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give…
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…
Matthew 2:1-12 An audio of the sermon can be found here. (Music and a children’s story come before the sermon.) Happy new year! Or is it — not happy, but new? I think many of you are familiar with the fact that different cultures and religions keep time differently. For instance, if we’re following the…
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