Worship & Sermon Archive

I remember when I was a teenager, watching one of my favorite TV programs, Designing Women. In one particular episode, the inimitable character, Julia Sugarbaker, sang this hymn at her friend, Charlene's, church.

What are we doing here? Here in this church, here in this city, here on this planet? That's a question I hear God asking me, from time to time: "K, what are you doing here?"

This short episode with the healing of Simon’s mother-in-law from Mark’s gospel challenges the ways we put wellness and productivity together.

Join with your neighbors for "Refugee Shabbat Havdalah: An Interfaith Gathering of Support" on February 3rd at 6:30pm at St. Paul and St. Andrew UMC.

Each year, an ecumenical group of Christians has come together to collaboratively develop a prayer and action service, recognizing World Day of Prayer.

What is a 'community of faith'? We toss that phase around, but do we think about what it means?

What is a 'community of faith'? We toss that phase around, but do we think about what it means?

We talk a lot in church about calling. Experiencing a call to something, or away from something. A call that feels like it comes from the Holy One.

Nathanael is skeptical about Jesus. Could this nobody from nowhere be worthy of his notice?

This weekend, here in the church world, is a pretty important weekend liturgically. From the anticipation of Advent to the hype of Christmas and the joy of baby Jesus being born...

New Year's Eve is really just another day. Except that it provides us with an excuse, an opportunity, to assess our life and think about the future. 

That's my own (loose) translation of what scripture tells us happened in a random stable on the outskirts of a backwater town in the ancient Jewish land of Judea...

Friends, We've waited all year - it's almost here! The cherished St Paul & St Andrew Service of Lessons & Carols, that is!

Friends, Come this Sunday at 11am for the fabulous St. Paul St. Andrew Christmas Pageant.

Friends, How do you get ready for Christmas? Some, like my family, decorate the day after Thanksgiving. The tree and the wreaths and the nativities all go up, even before the official start of Advent.

It seems strange to me that in some understandings of Christianity, what matters is what you believe and not what you do.

As you may remember, "talent" (τάλαντον in Greek) originally referred to a unit of money. A very big unit of money!

Even before October 7th, I had picked the Joshua passage to preach on for my first sermon at St. Paul St. Andrew.

Whenever we gather in worship, we join with other followers of Jesus we cannot see. Communion is always a 'communion of saints', past, present and future - a community beyond time and space.

So much of our time on this earth is planning for the future. What's for dinner? What will I wear on Sunday? What do I want to be when I grow up?