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…

John 1:35-51 Jeff Davidson One of the things that frustrates me the most about driving is rubberneckers. You’re sitting in traffic, sitting in traffic, sitting in traffic, inching along, running later and later for your appointment, and finally you see what the holdup is: a fender bender that’s going the other direction on the other…

Genesis 1: 1-5, Psalm 29, Mark 1:4-11,  Acts 19:1-7 Nathan Hosler Presentation conveys something of the message. Someone getting a face tattoo or wearing a swanky suit are communicating something. As an example of this Br. Jacob felt he needed to shave off is substantial beard recently while looking for a job upon moving to…

Jeremiah 31:7-14 Jeff Davidson Happy New Year! It’s nice to see you again. I hope you had a good Christmas celebration, and I hope you had a good New Year’s celebration too. I hope that 2015 is a wonderful year for each of you. In terms of the secular, cultural end of Christmas, one of…

Luke 1:26-38    Luke 1:46b-55 Jeff Davidson (Note to the reader: this sermon was preached after the dedication to Christ of Miles Menzie Curtis Clark, son of John and Sally (Penner) Clark.) This is a great time for a baby dedication.  This is the time of year when we think about baby Jesus, about parenthood, about…

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11; Luke 1:46b-55 Nathan Hosler While traveling strange things often happen. From the 3rd to the 9th I was traveling in the Dominican Republic and Haiti on for my denominational work with the Office of Public Witness. On our return flight out of Santo Domingo, the Dominican capitol, I was stopped going through…

Isaiah 40:1-11 Mark 1:1-8 Jeff Davidson As many of you know Julia and I have been moving and unpacking the last couple of weeks. We’re not done yet, but we’re getting there. It’s coming along. We actually moved two weeks ago yesterday, but the preparation for the move had started long before then. We had…