Rev. Timothy J. Ensworth
Heartbreak (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Ecclesiastes 8:9-17
October 29, 2017
Life, your life, is not all sweetness and light, is it?
Sometimes it is disappointing.
You had to reserve the campground four months in advance, so this one day is your window of opportunity to climb the mountain you’ve waited thirty years to climb, and it’s raining. … Continue reading ...
Ishmael (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Genesis 16:1-16, 21:1-21
June 22, 2014
Most people come to church, I think, for one of two reasons: to find answers or to find help.
Some of us come to church to find answers. We come from a life overfilled with ambiguity and uncertainty and conflict. We want to be able to sort it all out, to make sense of it. … Continue reading ...
I am nobody (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Exodus 3:1-15
August 31, 2014
I am nobody …
Have you ever said it? Have you ever felt it?
Sometimes, it’s a sigh of despair: I am nobody. I feel like my life doesn’t amount to anything. I feel like if I just disappeared off the face of the earth, I wouldn’t be missed, at least not for long. … Continue reading ...
Meanwhile (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Isaiah 40:3-5
January 18, 2015
I pray … a lot.
I pray for my children and my grandchildren, for my mother and for Lynne’s mother, and for Lynne.
I pray for this church — for energy, for passion, for spirit, for the strong presence of God’s spirit in us and among us. … Continue reading ...