Sermons from December 2024

Each year on Christmas Eve, we hear this gospel text. How does this age old story inspire our faith in this day and age? How can the miraculous and mysterious birth of our Savior help us to keep our flames lit all throughout the year, to do the work of Christmas as Howard Thurman writes in his poem…

This final Sunday of Advent, we encounter the story of Mary visiting Elizabeth. Elizabeth is filled with the Holy Spirit, as is Mary, and both proclaim great messages. How does the song of Mary in our text today, her Magnificat, and other proclamations in the beginning of Luke act as the Opening…

As John the Baptist insults the crowds by calling them “You brood of vipers!,” they come forward asking him: “What then should we do?” Wonder with Pastor Cecie about how we are called to respond to this question in our own time and place.

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.