Sermons from October 2022
Christ In The Borderlands | Luke 17:11-19 | Sermon 10.9.22
Christ enters into the in-between spaces and speaks words of healing and life.
Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can. | Sermon | Pr. Kathy Haueisen 10.2.22
Pastor Kathy Haueisen helps us celebrate commitment Sunday for our Seeds of Hope Campaign and reminds us that the burden is light when we share it and that what it takes to accomplish big things is all of us starting where…
Hope in the One Who Passes from Death to Life | Seeds of Hope | Luke 16:19-31 | Sermon 9.25.22
Jesus tells a parable of the world turned upside down. Where are we in this story? Have we listened and heard the prophets, the scriptures, and Jesus? Have we acted accordingly? Jesus shows us how we can be generous and…
Hope For Serving God Not Wealth | Seeds of Hope | Luke 16 | Sermon 9.18.22
Stories about creative accounting make me nervous, but God is in the business of debt cancellation and Jesus consistently teaches us to use our unjust wealth for the sake of building relationships with those who cannot repay us in worldly ways. Listen to last Sunday’s sermon on the…
Three Maybes for the Lost | Seeds of Hope | Luke 15:1-10 | Sermon 9.11.22
Perhaps we have not listened close enough to the parables Jesus tells to the grumbling religious people who are upset that Christ shares meals with the people on the margins and who have been cast out. Let’s listen again. Here are three ways we may (re)consider these parables.
We Know The Cost | Seeds of Hope | Luke 14:25-33 | Sermon 9.4.22
Pastor Drew asks us to stop and take stock of the cost of following Jesus. The good news is we’ve already been fully funded on Christ’s account.
Seeds of Hope for Inviting | Luke 14:1, 7-14 | Sermon 8.28.22
Pastor Drew shares how Jesus gives us the gift of inviting others to share in the heavenly banquet and how God calls us to make use of that gift by inviting those who have been pushed away, left out, and who cannot return the invitation.
Seeds of Hope for Healing and Sanctuary | Luke 13:10-17 | Sermon 8.21.22
Pastor Kathy Haueisen invites us to dream of what it looks like to plant seeds of hope for the healing and wholeness of the world as we kick off our Seeds of Hope Campaign. May God’s grace equip and empower us to plant seeds of hope that yield a place and community that offers connection with…