Preacher: Dana Cassell Scripture: Luke 13:31-35 My friend Cindy spent her career as a high school teacher in Virginia Beach. Cindy is funny and snarky and fiercely protective of the people she loves. She started the first GSA – Gay Straight Alliance – at the school where she taught, and was a staunch protector and…
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Love Comes Down
Preacher: Julia Baker Scripture: Exodus 34:29-35 and Luke 9:28-43 My junior year in college, I lived in the Peruvian Andes. And one ordinary morning, I met God or maybe God met me in a way I could see. The river flowing by the meadow I was in was steeped glacial turquoise. At 14,000 ft the…
Love Your Enemies
By: Dana Cassell Luke 6:27-38 Did you know that there’s an influx of Amish moving into south and central Virginia? In fact, Virginia and West Virginia are the sites of the fastest-growing Amish populations in the country. Farmland, it turns out, is a lot cheaper here than it is around Lancaster, PA, and hundreds of…
Love – and Almost Getting Thrown off a Cliff
Preacher: Jenn Hosler Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30 Love – and Almost Getting Thrown off a Cliff (1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30)Jennifer Hosler The love passage – 1 Corinthians 13. Perhaps this feels like a difficult passage to dig into right now. Using my powers of deduction, many of us are stressed, terrified, angry,…
THE FEAR OF GOD
Preacher: Daniel Kwadwo Akomea-Agyin Date: February18, 2024 Scripture: Luke 12:4-10 Prelude: What if you knew that you could never die. Never fall sick. Never fail. How would you live your life? Many people advice that we live everyday as if it were our last – this in the hopes that we would make groundbreaking decisions that…
Waiting. Hoping. Christmas 2023
Preacher: Pastor Nathan Hosler, PhD Date: December 24, 2023 Scripture: Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26, Luke 1:26-28, 2:1-40, Titus 3:4-7 Waiting with bated breath we have been. Waiting for the coming Christ child. In these weeks of Advent—we have—at least principle, been waiting for the promised Messiah, the long-expected savior. Waiting. Longing. Hoping. If, however, you were distracted…
Voices that We Do Not Expect
Preacher: Pastor Jennifer Hosler, PhD Date: December 10, 2023 Scripture: Mark 1:1-8, Luke 1:39-55 I learned a new word recently: muzak. I was reading a Bethany Theological Seminary update email with a reflection by President Jeff Carter that included this word, discussing the saturation of stores with Christmas background music during this season. Momentarily puzzled, I…
Reflections from Ukraine
Preacher: Brad Hendrickson Date: November 05, 2023 Scripture: Matthew 22:34–40, Luke 6:34–36 Audio for this sermon can be found here: To be posted As I’ve taken these last few weeks since Jenn and Nathan first invited me to speak to think over how I might reflect here with you this morning on some of my…
How Do You See God?
Preacher: Nicole Crouch Date: July 30, 2023 Scripture: Luke 5:17-26 Audio for this sermon can be found here via Google Drive: It is an honor to be here with you all. (As Rev Jenn mentioned) I am the Site Manager for thischurch and Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, and I have been working here since…
Go Deeper Than What you See: Un-Ask
Preacher: Julia Baker Swann Scritpures: Luke 13: 1-9 & Isaiah 55:1-9 The poet Joy Harjo said, “A poem can hold our questions, hold our contradictions.” I think one of the reasons I am a poet is because I love to ask questions. But what I have found freeing about the way a poem asks questions…
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