Sermons

Jeremiah 36:1-8,21-23, 27-28; 31:31-34 (sermon note: 11-22 sermon note) (watch here: https://youtu.be/1KYwlUqJpwE) In the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today. It may be that when the house of Judah hears of all the disasters that I intend to do to them, all of them may turn from their evil ways, so that I may forgive their iniquity [...]

Isaiah 6:1-8 (sermon note: 11-15 sermon note) (watch here: https://youtu.be/9Y7EVq-8QHg) In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another and said: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.’ The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. [...]

Jonah 1:1-17; 3:1-10; 4:1-11 (sermon note: 11-08 sermon note) (watch here: https://youtu.be/uMptRWAPtDQ) Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying, ‘Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.’ But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid his fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.   But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such [...]

This morning we joined with our Bishop and fellow women pastors to celebrate the 50th anniversary of women's ordination. What a moving service! Enjoy! (watch here: https://youtu.be/3DpjXNdgPUE)

2 Samuel 7:1-17 (sermon note: 10-25 Sermon note) (watch here: https://youtu.be/jZSO8nfSlHE) Now when the king was settled in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him, the king said to the prophet Nathan, ‘See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God stays in a tent.’ Nathan said to the king, ‘Go, do all that you have in mind; for the Lord is with you.’   But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan: “Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build [...]

1 Samuel 1:9-11, 19-20; 2:1-10 (watch here: https://youtu.be/b3oOSQ0sslM) (sermon note: 10-18 sermon note) After they had eaten and drunk at Shiloh, Hannah rose and presented herself before the Lord. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord. She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord, and wept bitterly. She made this vow: ‘O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the [...]

(watch here: https://youtu.be/ehekvcd_tOU) Revelation 21:1-5 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the [...]

Exodus 32:1-14 (watch here: https://youtu.be/-ftcc9O78-c) sermon note: 10-11 sermon note When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, ‘Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ Aaron said to them, ‘Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.’ So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and [...]

Genesis 1:26-28 (sermon note: 10-04 sermon note) (watch here: https://youtu.be/5de3ghL6Fh4) 26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the [...]

Genesis 37:3-8, 17b-22, 26-34; 50:15-21 (sermon note: 09-27 sermon note) (watch here: https://youtu.be/HTvNOHmqvSM) Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he had made him a long robe with sleeves. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.   Once Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said to them, ‘Listen to this dream that I dreamed. There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Suddenly [...]

Genesis 15:1-6 (sermon note: 09-20 sermon note) (watch here: https://youtu.be/bcHgYlKKFVg) After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, ‘Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.’ But Abram said, ‘O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?’ And Abram said, ‘You have given me no offspring, and so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.’ But the word of the Lord came to him, ‘This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very [...]

Genesis 2:4b-7, 15-17; 3:1-8 (watch here: https://youtu.be/6ZWxfjA7yAI) In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground— then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.   [...]