Worship & Sermon Archive

The story of Jesus' encounter with the woman of Samaria is my favorite story in my least favorite Gospel. 

Happy Birthday St. Paul & St. Andrew! On March 5, 1835, this congregation came together formally for the first time.

We are reflecting this Lent on how we can answer the call to be "repairers of the breach."

Happy Transfiguration Sunday! The final Sunday before Lent always brings us to the mountaintop, the high place where Jesus holds a summit...

The thrust of Jesus' advice to us is this: trust God and live in the blessing of this moment.

When Jesus speaks to his followers in the Sermon on the Mount, he doesn't say that they could be, might be, or even will be salt and light.

That's the way Matthew's gospel introduces the famous Sermon on the Mount. For the following 111 verses, Jesus speaks and speaks...

We sometimes get the impression that Jesus goes out hunting for disciples, looking for disciple-y looking people as he walks along the shore.

These are the first words Jesus speaks in the Gospel According to John. He asks that of two disciples of John the Baptist who have caught a glimpse of him...

Happy Epiphany! The Epiphany (literally, a sudden appearance, as in the sunrise) marks the moment when Jesus is seen by the Wise Ones...

This Sunday, we’ll ring in the new calendar year together.  We’ll take the time we have to wonder about what season it is in our lives, as we move from one to the next. 

Please join us on Saturday at 10:45pm in the sanctuary for the beloved Candlelight Service. Our celebration will include an angelic string quartet...

This Sunday, December 18, at 10:55 AM on the dot begins St. Paul & St. Andrew’s ever-delightful, ever-charming, ever-stirring...

What could be more fitting a guide to embodying joy than a Christmas Pageant?  Our kids, families, and pastoral team will bring life to the tale of Jesus's birth...

As we look towards Christmas and the embodiment of God, the Word made flesh (John 1:1) how powerful it is to share together the body of Christ.

Today we begin a new Christian year, a new cycle of grace. After a week of horrible, hateful senseless shootings, targeting the LGBTQIA community...

What always strikes me about the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats is how mystified the righteous 'sheep' are at the praise from Jesus?

Whenever I read this week’s passage from Mark, I can’t help but notice the effort of the friends of the paralyzed man to get him to Jesus. Long walk?

With these words Jesus shows us that life stretches on after death. And so, we come to All Saints Sunday secure in the knowledge that all those imperfect saints...

Poor Zacchaeus, if we know anything about him it's this: the dude was short. He was 'short in stature'. And evidently he was a bit short on ethics as well...