Sermons

Sermons

Sorted By: February 2009

    Feb 25, 2009

    Back to the Beginning

    Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner

    Series: Ash Wednesday

    The world is ending, or at least, that's what it seems like to the prophet Joel, whose name means, "the Lord is my God." Our reading today is from the second chapter of the book of Joel, and if you look at the first chapter of this book, there's ...
      Feb 22, 2009

      Epiphany Last Year B

      Speaker: The Rev. Timothy Patterson

      Let me begin with a poem by Mary Oliver, which I believe will point us in the right direction.. "When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of ...
        Feb 15, 2009

        Growing Beyond Ourselves

        Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner

        Series: Epiphany 6 Year B

        Sometimes I think I voluntarily, albeit subconsciously, limit my own perceptions of God and God's activities in the world. Naaman, the Aramean, is a powerful man. He is a successful general who has won many wars on behalf of his nation and his ...
          Feb 8, 2009

          Epiphany 5 Year B

          Speaker: The Rev. Virginia Herring

          Memory is a fascinating phenomenon. Memory cannot be touched, tasted, or smelled, yet those things are the very substance of it. Memory is the connective tissue of our lives, and its essence is experience - not intellect. Even when we want to ...
            Feb 1, 2009

            Epiphany 4 Year B

            Speaker: The Rev. Timothy Patterson

            "Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, 'What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.' But Jesus rebuked him, saying, 'Be ...