Sermons from March 2019

Love Your Worries

Laid up in a hospital bed from his wounds, a young man named Ignatius began to imagine more than the brokenness he had known. More than just fighting and pain, he wondered what else he could do. With aggression, conflict, mercenary challenges, he felt desperation. At the age of seventeen, he was more eager to pick a good fight, than any concern…

Love the Hypocrites

Today, we continue on our Lenten series to take on love based on Jesus’ teaching from the Sermon on the Mount.  I invite you to take on love for hypocrites.  Often, we think of hypocrisy in terms of a someone else.  Someone who has hurt you.  Someone who has betrayed you.  We can imagine someone who has said one thing and done…

Love Your Enemies

This Lent, we have been listening to Jesus’ call in the Sermon on Mount to take on love, God’s love with prayers for our hands and actions for our feet.  Last week, we began our journey on Ash Wednesday as we asked the question – Does Jesus love me, even me?  YES!   Then we looked…

Love Your Neighbor

This Wednesday, many gathered for Ash Wednesday to begin this season of Lent.  With 59 in worship between the noon and 7pm services, I was moved.  Moved by the ashen mark of God’s love of foreheads.  Moved by familiar faces and neighbor faces we are learning. Moved by those who brought their confessions to the cross to be shredded and then embrace…