Tag: confirmation

How Christianity has changed

How Christianity has changed (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Acts 5:27-32, Revelation 1:4-8
April 3, 2016

“How Christianity has changed”

First, I must tell you, the sermon title is not mine.  None of the sermon titles for the four Sundays in April come from me.  Two weeks ago, I asked the members of our confirmation class and their high school mentors — Katy and Japhy and Maria and Zoe and Leah and Laura and Lauren and Katherine — I asked them to suggest topics they would like addressed in a sermon. … Continue reading ...

Loving God in a technology growing hectic lifestyle modern world

Loving God in a technology growing hectic lifestyle modern world (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
John 21:1-17
April 10, 2016

Loving God in a technology growing hectic lifestyle modern world

I will remind you that the sermon titles for the month of April were suggested by members of our current confirmation class. They submitted their lists anonymously, but I do know who wrote this one, one of our two confirmation mentors, Lauren Reisinger.… Continue reading ...

Beauty of the life we have/no matter what

Beauty of the life we have/no matter what (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Psalm 23
April 17, 2016

What do you see when you see Charley Corson in a pout and pigtails?

What do you see when you watch Jack Conrad speak with such authority about the names and habits of various species of dinosaur?

What do you see when Laura Kaliban offers you the bread of life?… Continue reading ...

Eye for an eye

Eye for an eye (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
John 13:31-35, Exodus 21:12-27
April 24, 2016

Jesus said: “Now God’s glory is revealed.”

How? Where? What does it look like? You see it, don’t you? God’s glory is all around us. We just have to open our eyes. It is all around us, from the delicate lines and colors of a tiny woodland wildflower to the mind-boggling dimensions of a black hole in deep space, from the gentle plip plop of raindrops onto the surface of a lake on a windless day to the bone-jarring boom of an active thunderhead.… Continue reading ...