Worship & Sermon Archive

This week has been another week of heartbreak, where the only appropriate responses are to feel anger and despair...

Last Sunday a group of us went up to the South Bronx to visit New Roots Community Farm where our very own Lhana Ormenyi volunteers as a beekeeper.

With the swirl of disturbing news lately, including the horror in Buffalo yesterday, you might be forgiven for not noticing the launch...

So much disturbing news this week makes me want to scream, not pray. Or scream while I'm praying.

By the evening of that first Easter, the disciples are weary, frightened, confused, dispirited, and out of breath.  Then Jesus shows up.

Like actually and truly. For so many of us, words in our various languages and dialects are how we communicate with the world around us.

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.

I know we've been at church all along, every Sunday, whether online or in person.  And we'll continue to livestream the service, same as always. 

It could have been so easy for Jesus that day in Nazareth. Returning home with a reputation, showing up at shul, basking in the glow of admiration...

The way the Gospel of Luke tells the story, nobody can do anything worthwhile without the active help of the Spirit of God. Not even Jesus.

What do we do when the wine gives out? I've been thinking about that question metaphorically this week.