February 3rd – Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager

John 6:1-14 Belonging Creates and Undoes Us Both: Three Stories I brought three sacred stories with me today. Each holds a moment of communion and belonging, hope and possibility. Maybe these will fill something in you, and in turn, may the stories of your life,...

January 27th – Steve Jungkeit

Texts: Matthew 5: 13-16; Romans 13: 11-14 The Ears of the Heart: Benedictine Wisdom for a World in Flux               Here’s a short passage from a book entitled After Virtue, by Alisdair MacIntyre, a study of philosophical ethics that has had an outsized...

January 20th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

Texts: Ezekiel 47: 6b-12; Jeremiah 17: 7-8 Tree by Tree: A Restless Child of the Promise             The Hebrew prophets and their vision of a peaceable kingdom have been stirring my imagination over the past couple of months, beginning in Advent and now continuing...

January 13th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

Texts:  Genesis 31: 44-49; Isaiah 21: 6-8 Live at the Mizpah Café             Since the beginning of Advent, we’ve been circling around the dreams of human flourishing that are found throughout the pages of Scripture, but that are given special prominence in the weeks...

January 6th – Carleen Gerber – with audio

 Isaiah 9:2 and 6-7 Matthew 2:1-12 Hebrews 13:14 “No Longer at Home in the Old Dispensation…”         And so we have come through Advent, we have soldiered through Christmas, and today we find ourselves on the day of the Kings: known in the church year as Epiphany...

December 30th – Steve Jungkeit

The Christmas Dog Part I               Before there were kids, before there were a string of Christmas Eve services to keep us up late, before there was an endless series of preparations, when things were altogether quieter, I fell into the habit of stealing away...

December 23rd – Steve Jungkeit

Text: Matthew 1: 18-25 Restless Children of the Promise: Joseph’s Story, and Ours Too             Is there any major character in the Christmas narrative, and indeed in all of the Bible, more overlooked and less understood than Joseph, the father of Jesus?  Mary gets...

December 9th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

Texts: Luke 1: 57-58, 67, 76-80 Restless Children of the Promise, Part II: Mapping the Landscape of Love   By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness… to guide our feet into the way of peace....

December 2nd – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

Texts: Isaiah 9: 2, 6-7; Joel 2: 28   Restless Children of the Promise “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, Almighty God, the Everlasting Father,...

November 18th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

Texts: John 21: 1-14 The Time Jesus Cooked a Culturally Appropriate Meal             A few weeks ago, I was privileged to sit with Joseph and Martine Kazadi over lunch.  As we ate, they narrated their long and arduous odyssey from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic...

November 11th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

Texts: Psalm 130; Matthew 6: 5-13 Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Different Ways to Pray, Part V) I’ve been trying to get down, To the heart of the matter, But the flesh it gets weak, And the ashes will scatter, But I think it’s about Forgiveness…Forgiveness. -Don Henley,...

November 4th – Steve Jungkeit – with audio

Texts: Isaiah 24: 18b-20; Psalm 40: 1-3; Luke 7: 11-17 “When Things Fall Down, Who Lifts Them Up?”             Today’s sermon unfolds something like a Chinese box, where removing the lid from one box reveals another, similar box inside of it, and then another inside...