Brent Ness

I’m not ready for Easter this year.  That has nothing to do with whether my sermon is written (at least it’s started), or whether the Easter lilies…

On that first Palm Sunday, Jesus must have been elated.  To see the numbers of followers turning out to welcome him into the holy city of Jerusalem…

This Sunday, we’ll contemplate the creation of a new home, born out of the experience of exile and in the midst of wilderness. 

On Sunday, I want to share with you the story of ‘God’s Prodigal Son,’ by whom I mean, of course, Jesus.

Jesus is on the road again, heading to Jerusalem and his destiny. But people come up to him with news of bad things happening…

We meet Jesus this week in the middle of Luke’s Gospel narrative: Jesus is already actively ministering: healing people…

Friends, this Tuesday will mark the second anniversary of our last in-person worship service before the Covid-19 shutdown. 

At the end of Epiphany Season, we take time for one more epiphany, a literal ‘shining forth’, witnessed by Peter, John and James up on the mountain of the Transfiguration.

As I often point out, Jesus never tells us, ‘Don’t make enemies;’ He assumes that if we follow his way of radical welcome…

In this week’s Gospel, we find Jesus on a level plain, for Luke’s version of the Sermon on the Mount, in the midst of a crowd in need of healing.