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The Passion of our Lord

New Day Sermon Palm/Passion Sunday Today’s message is the Passion of the Christ according to the Gospel of Mark. How does the meaning of the sung refrain “Messiah, come and be our king” change as the story unfolds?

Licorice, Death, and Life

New Day Sermon Lent 5 There’s a rhythm to our reality where death leads to life. Jesus reminds us that to really know life, something needs to die. How is Jesus inviting you to die?

Wheat Arising Green

Traditional Sermon Lent 5 The grain of wheat falling to the earth and dying, bears fruit in our agricultural world. What are the grains of of our lives that in dying bear fruit of grace and blessing for us? Oft times a hymn is a sermon in and of itself, with the hymn text writer…

Love Stories

New Day Sermon lent 4 We talk about God’s love for the world, but how does God love the world? In what way can we even begin to describe this love? Maybe we start with some love stories…

How Does God Love the World?

Traditional sermon lent 4 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord, Jesus Christ (1 Colossians 1:3). Let’s go back in time to the mid-1970s. And, yes, I’m talking about a little over 40 years ago. I was in high school. Disco, very wide ties, platform shoes, tacky…

The “But Why’s” of Life

The other day my daughter learned a new word. “Law.” As in “it’s the law.” How did we get to me teaching her a new word? Well, she is living into her newly minted 4 year old sense of independence. She knows what she likes and what she doesn’t like. And tells us about it.…

Protected Gifts

New Day Sermon LENT 3 Sometimes we struggle with the legalism of rules. But in God’s world, they are often the ways we safeguard the greatest blessings in our lives.

Carrying Your Cross with Hope … and Joy?

traditional sermon LENT 2 The 8th chapter of Mark’s Gospel from which we read today is a challenging piece of writing to be sure. This past Wednesday morning, my weekly Bible Study class studied this very chapter, and discussed the change in spirit that occurs in the roughly fifty verses of this chapter that stands in…

Are you in denial?

New Day Sermon Lent 2 As we continue in Lent, while we re-examine our relationship with God, let us also think about whether or not we are in denial regarding God or about our faith. We all falter now and then, but God still loves us nonetheless!

Your Wilderness

And the Spirit immediately drove Jesus out into the wilderness. Mark 1:12 In Biblical terms…the wilderness is usually not a place we want to go to. Going back to the Old Testament the people of God are in the wilderness for 40 years…and it wasn’t because Moses refused to stop and ask for directions. It…