Cheryl

Unity in Christ does not mean uniformity. Unity in Christ means the compassionate presence of the Holy Other abides in us and dwells with us.

Together with the vision of those familiar hands, I hear Grandma’s voice, humming andcrooning the words to the old hymns that she knew by heart, hymns that were still as newand fresh to her as her own childhood, but were as old and outdated to me as Grandmaherself.

The grace of getting old is getting nearer to God. And the enlightenment that comes from the awareness that God has always been near to you, from birth to old age, God is with us.

A sermon on the theme of soil and water stewardship.

The gospels, Book of Acts and Pauline letters all attest to the bodily resurrection of Jesus from the dead, and testify that, for the brief period he remained on earth, Jesus was seen by as many as 500 people. While the traditional Easter liturgy proclaims “The Lord is Risen!” – perhaps the testimony of Mary, the

This Palm Sunday sermon considers the Triumphal Entry story in Matthew 21:1-11, and the contrast between the crowd that welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem and the different crowd that clamored for his death a few days later.

John’s gospel tells a long story of the man born blind in chapter 9. The healing of the blind man is one of the “signs” that show Jesus really is the Messiah of God. Jesus contrasts physical blindness, for which no one is to be “blamed” for having caused, with spiritual blindness, which is a

On March 8th, International Women’s Day, the sermon (and worship) addressed the subject of Sexual Assault, which has so disturbingly been in the national news. The biblical text was 2 Samuel 13 about the Rape of Tamar (King David’s daughter), which renowned biblical scholar Phyllis Trible famously labeled a “Text of Terror.”

When the term “born again Christian” is bandied about, the comment from The Princess Bride comes to mind: “I do not think it means what you think it means.” This sermon explores the New Testament Greek word translated as “again” or “from above” or “anew” used in John 3 when Jesus talks to the Pharisee

The story of Jesus being transfigured on the mountaintop is not only a revelation that the itinerant rabbi from Galilee was indeed the Messiah sent from God, but a cautionary tale not to try and memorialize where God has once spoken, instead continuing to listen for God speaking today.