Rev. Timothy J. Ensworth
Go and tell (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Matthew 28:1-10
April 20, 2014
The last lie is no lie at all. Jesus is alive. But if Jesus is alive, then none of the rest are lies either.
Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is near,” and it is. It is near in time, coming soon. Now God’s sense of “soon” and our sense of “soon” may be two different things, but the kingdom of God is coming, God is coming, soon. … Continue reading ...
You have to go outside (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Genesis 1:1 – 2:4
June 15, 2014
(Play excerpt from Dan Gibson, “Land of the Loons”)
Welcome to my world …
Lakes, cold and deep and blue, sometimes still, sometimes raging, dense forests of long-needled pine and aromatic cedar and glistening birch.
The haunting call of a loon, the deliberate and unruffled movements of a moose raising itself from the water onto the lakeshore, swimming beaver and soaring eagle and stealthy walleye.… Continue reading ...
More’s the pity (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Isaiah 53:4-5
March 15, 2015
The image on the cover of your bulletin shows a white policeman holding a club standing over the slumped body of an African-American. It is hard to judge from the photo if the limp, presumably beaten, body is that of a man or a woman, but I think it is a woman.… Continue reading ...
Again … joy (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Isaiah 53:10-12
April 5, 2015
How does it all begin?
With a dance …
Out of nothing, out of an empty, shapeless, lifeless void, God sets the universe dancing. Atoms of hydrogen and helium excite and collide and combust, dancing into flame, dancing into light, swirling, congealing, taking shape as stars, dancing stars!… Continue reading ...
How I want to be there! (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Psalm 84
August 23, 2015
How I love your Temple, Lord Almighty!
How I want to be there!
I long to be in the Lord’s Temple.
With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.
You only know it if you know it — that passion, that longing, that joy. … Continue reading ...
Deep peace (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Micah 5:2-5
December 20, 2015
Deep peace of the running wave to you,
deep peace of the flowing air to you,
deep peace of the quiet earth to you,
deep peace of the shining stars to you,
deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.
Deep peace. Have you known it? … Continue reading ...