John 20:1-18, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Nathan Hosler Easter Sunday Our first summer of marriage Jenn and I lived in a cottage on several acres forest that someone lent us. Jenn was doing an internship at the congregation where I grew up and I was working with my dad in carpentry. One evening we were going…

Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29    Mark 11:1-11  Palm Sunday Jeff Davidson Years ago I saw some flash cards that had cartoons on them designed to help you learn the books of the Bible. One of the cards had a big cartoon letter “S” on it, and the “S” had arms and was stirring a bowl. Which book…

John 12:20-33, Matthew 13: 24-30 Bryan Hanger Today is the 5th Sunday of Lent. Next week is Palm Sunday. Jesus’ final act is approaching and we must continue to reflect on his final days and focus our hearts on the message he proclaimed. In our scripture readings today we have a parable and a short…

John 3:14-21  Jeff Davidson This is one of those passages that has about a dozen different sermons in it. Jesus starts off by talking about Moses lifting up a bronze serpent on a pole in the wilderness. That story is in Numbers 21:4-9. You could talk about how just as Moses lifted up the serpent…

John 2:13-25 Nathan Hosler – John 2:13-25 13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15 Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the…

Genesis 12:1-4a, Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16, Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 Jeff Davidson  We were playing a team-building game at work last weekend, and one of the questions asked during the game was, “If you could be any superhero, which one would you be?” It wasn’t my question but I did have an answer. If I could be…

Mark 9:2-9 Jeff Davidson “It’s good to be here.”  Those words are probably pretty familiar to most of us. Most of us say them, or something like them, time after time after time. Depending on your job, you might say those words hundreds of times a year. We say something like that when we’re guests…

Isaiah 40:21-31 Nathan Hosler Think back to an advertisement you saw recently. It is quite likely that it had something to do with speed. A faster phone. Faster internet. Faster car. One of the past three weekends I was away was at an interfaith conference on drone warfare. One of my continuous critiques of our…

Deuteronomy 18:15-22, Mark 1:21-28 Bryan Hanger How many names do we have for our God? Yahweh is one of the many names the Hebrews used for God and that same God in the book of Exodus referred to itself as “The I AM”. Jesus is what we call Yahweh’s son, but we also call him savior…