Sermons from August 2022
Inspired: Wisdom Stories
This week we continue our new worship series “Inspired” based on the book Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans. As humans working in and through all that their is in this world to work in and through, we seek guidance and wisdom and inspiration. This week we look at where we might find such wisdom in our sacred text. Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (CEB)
Inspired: War Stories
This week we continue our new worship series “Inspired” based on the book Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans. It is my hope that people of faith regularly read from our sacred texts. For any of us who regularly read, I suggest that we sometimes find stories and passages that we find difficult to read or even troubling. I believe that facing these difficult stories and passages and questions is essential…
Inspired: Deliverance Stories
This week we continue our new worship series “Inspired” based on the book Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans. It is surely safe to say that we all wish for deliverance from something. For some of us we may wish for deliverance small inconveniences and annoyances. Still others may wish for deliverance from major emotional upheavals and other difficult circumstances. We are reminded that God hears our cries, even our most…
Inspired: Origin Stories
This week we transition from our series on the Apostles’ Creed to our new worship series “Inspired” based on the book Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans. In this book, Rachel draws on the best in recent scholarship and uses her well-honed literary expertise to examine some of her favorite Bible stories and possible interpretations, retelling them through memoir, original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay. Undaunted by…