Sermons by Pastor Cecie Suknaic Saulnier

This first week of Advent, in the midst of an apocalyptic text, how do we stand up and raise our heads? Listen as Pastor Cecie wonders about the “power poses” of our faith and how we may be opened to God’s presence already coming to birth in our world.

What are you afraid of? This sermon focuses on fear, and God’s invitation: “Do not be afraid.”

God meets us in our tears. God meets us in our grief. Reflect with Pastor Cecie on God’s movements in our world and lives on All Saints Sunday.

How does the wisdom of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah reach across time to the here and now? Reflect on these words from Pastor Cecie regarding God’s response to our suffering world.

Reflect with Pastor Cecie upon how all creation, from the living beings to the inanimate created objects, worship and praise God through the story of St. Francis.

On God’s Work, Our Hands Sunday, our gospel text focuses on who is the greatest and how Jesus reframes such thinking. Turning the normal hierarchy upside down, in the reign of Christ the first will be last and last will be first. Listen for more about what this means for our lives of faith and service.

In the text today, Jesus asks his disciples “Who do you say that I am?” and then encourages them to take up the cross and follow him. This sermon focuses on the question: How does our naming of Christ empower us to follow him?

Contemplate Jesus’s metanoia moment in the sermon from Mark’s gospel today.

“God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.” -Martin Luther. This sermon focuses on faith, works, and Lutheran theology!

How is God inviting us in this current moment to turn back and put our faith – wholly, fully, and completely – on God? What are the things that draw you away from God? Take a listen to this sermon and be surprised to hear that the Israelites under the leadership of Joshua also struggled to put their complete faith in God.