We know little about the Samaritan woman at the well, but there are some things we can gather about her from cultural and historical knowledge, and it’s that Jesus went out of his way to talk to her despite her being a bottom-of-the-pole social pariah. She was a...
Rev. Canon Michael Spencer, filling in for our clergy (who were both away on business this past Sunday), preaches about Nicodemus, the Pharisee who approached Jesus to learn more and ask questions, even when he was struggling to wrap his head around what Jesus had to...
What do coffee and doughnuts have to do with the devil (besides being sinfully delicious)? Temptation– albeit small and relatively harmless temptations. Rev. Simon Barnes preaches on Jesus’s temptation in the desert and how we can resist the siren call of...
Rev. Dr. Stephen Caine preaches on how we want to keep our “mountaintop moments”– the moments, like Jesus’s Transfiguration, where we try to clench the divine between our fingers and keep it with us for when the realities of life start making...
Rev. Simon Barnes covers the “wind-sucking” culmination of Jesus’s “Sermon on the Mount,” in which Jesus lays out ground rules for touchy subjects like murder, adultery, divorce, and taking...
Rev. Dr. Stephen Caine talks about the two perceived paths of being a Christian: the “my personal Jesus” path and the “show, don’t tell” path. There is, he argues, a third way to follow Christ. (Featuring a beautiful performance of...
