Sermons

Once Upon a Time...We Endure

Sermon 11-17-19 23rd Sunday after Pentecost Text: Luke 21:5-19 Pastor Jean M. Hansen  

Stained-Glass Saints…and More

On this All Saints’ Sunday, it’s logical for us to consider this question – what is a saint? Look around, you’ll see saints – living ones and, also, saints depicted in the stained-...

God Knows Us. God Loves Us.

I’ve become quite a thrift shop explorer recently. I do not have time for rummage or estate sales, but there are four stores in the area that I frequent looking for that which is...

Who Knew Stewardship Could Be So Much Fun? Part #2

If you’ve been here during October, you know that one of the many focuses this month has been on making stewardship fun. Or, perhaps I should say the emphasis has been on transforming...

Who Knew Stewardship Could Be So Much Fun?

Who knew stewardship could be so much fun??? I know, I know – that’s an unusual theme for our congregation’s stewardship emphasis. If you read the Pastor’s Pondering in the October...

A Different, Better Life

You may be surprised to hear that during the past two weeks I’ve been watching, on TV, the Ken Burns documentary on Country Music.

God Never Calls Off the Search

It’s not what is lost that’s the focus of today’s Gospel lesson, it’s the one who is doing the searching that is the focus … that’s God, presented by Jesus as a shepherd looking for a...

On Who Do We Pull the Shade?

Jesus is at it again; he just keeps saying radical things! What, you might ask, is so radical about today’s reading, especially the first part? It seems rather boring; just some polite...