SERMON TEXTS

If you can't join us for our Sunday worship service, we invite you to read one of our recent sermons by our pastor, the Rev. Libby Sigmon.

	8/7/22 — Our Unbelieving Faith
7/31/22 —Ordinary Times	7/24/22 — When?
7/17/22 — One Thing vs. Many Things	7/10/22 — Whose Word/Whose Place Is it?
7/3/22 — Looking for God in All the Wrong Places	6/26/22 — Having Freedom
6/19/22 — What Are You Doing Here?	6/12/22 — Can’t Explain It
6/5/22 — Dove or Flame?	5/29/22 — On Being/Becoming
5/22/22 — Is It Now the Time?	5/15/22 — Deciding Who Is In
5/8/22 — The Chicken or the Egg Question	5/1/22 — Two Life Changing Encounters
4/24/22 — Faithful Witness	4/17/22 — Only Love Believes
4/10/22 — A More Important Question	4/3/22 — Not One and Done
3/27/22 — Seeing God’s Perspective	3/20/22 — Learning to Trust
3/13/22 — Good News?	3/6/22 — Remembering
2/27/22 — Listening	2/20/22 — Command or Promise?
2/13/22 — Alternatives	2/6/22 — Hearing Calls
1/30/22 — Hearing Good News as Bad News	1/23/22 — Free and Costly
1/16/22 — Learning to Tell Time	1/9/22 — 1 Not Too Good to Be True
1/2/22 — Seeing God	12/26/21 — Growing in Wisdom and Stature
12/19/21 — When?	12/12/21 — Repentance and Joy
12/5/21 — Preparations	11/28/21 — Remaining Hopeful
11/21/21 — Jesus, A Different Kind of King	11/14/21 — What We Need to Know
11/7/21 — The Matching Game	10/31/21 — Hearing Versus Listening
10/24/21 — Choosing Sight	10/17/21 — Learning Obedience
10/10/21 — Hating the One Who Reproves	10/3/21 — Parabola of Salvation
9/19/21 — Jesus’ Social Structure, God’s Economy	9/12/21 — Opposites
9/5/21 — Understanding God’s Family	8/29/21 — Setting Priorities
8/22/21 — Spiritual Armor	8/15/21 — Living As Wise People
8/8/21 — Rules for the New Life	8/1/21 — Who Provides?
7/25/21 — Being Nourished	7/18/21 — Becoming As One
7/11/21 — Finding a Plumb Line	7/4/21 — Baggage
6/27/21 — A Narrative of Two Healings	6/20/21 — Two Texts: Same Question
6/13/21 — Walking Blindly	6/6/21 — Picking Your Own King
5/30/21 — Explaining Mystery	5/23/21 — Recognizing the Holy Spirit
5/16/21 — Two Ways	5/9/21 — Them Too?
5/2/21 — Asking Great Questions	4/25/21 — Shepherds and Voices
4/18/21 — 1Too good to be true?	4/11/21 — Finding the Light
4/4/21 — The Proclamation	4/1/21 — The Hardest Commandment
3/28/21 — Hosanna	3/21/21 — The New Covenant Promised
3/14/21 — What gets lifted up?	3/7/21 — Covenant Connections
2/28/21 — Unwelcome News	2/21/21 — Repentance
2/14/21 — When Seeing Isn’t Believing	2/7/21 — Carefree and Caring
1/31/21 — Whose Voice?	1/24/21 — Repent!
1/10/21 — Types of Baptism	1/3/21 — That Song of Peace on Earth
12/27/20 — An Odd Christmas Carol	12/24/20 — Symbols of Christ
12/20/20 — How Can This Be…Let It Be	12/13/20 — In Pursuit of…
12/6/20 — Wilderness Beginnings	11/29/20 — Everything Has an End
11/22/20 — Seeing Jesus’ Face	11/15/20 — What Image of God Do You See?
11/8/20 — Urgent! Really?	10/18/20 — A Mis-interpretation
10/11/20 — Come As You Are?	10/4/20 — The Original Guide to Being Fruitful
9/27/20 — Testing	9/20/20 — What Is Enough?
9/13/20 — My Small Sins, Their Great Wrongs	9/6/20 — The Essential Ingredient
8/30/20 — A “Cross and Follow” Kind of Life	8/23/20 — Good Questions
8/16/20 — Even Dogs	8/9/20 — Confessing Lips, Believing Hearts
8/2/20 — Enough	7/19/20 — Telling the Difference
7/12/20 — The Sower, the Seed and the Soil	7/5/20 — The Most Difficult Word
6/21/20 — Two Truths for Our Time	6/7/20 — The Divine Dance
5/31/20 — Pentecost Paradoxes	5/10/20 — Getting Directions
4/26/20 — An Eye Opening Walk	4/19/20 — Thomas Without the Adjective
4/9/20 — A New Commandment	3/29/20 — Restoration
3/22/20 — Layers of Sight/Blindness	3/15/20 — Constant Thirst
3/8/20 — Hinges and Fulcrums	3/1/20 — The Claiming of Identity
2/23/20 — Listen to Him!	2/16/20 — God’s Meddling Ways
2/9/20 — Called to be Salt and Light	2/2/20 — Christianity 101
1/26/20 — Called: From What to What	1/19/20 — Two Questions
1/12/20 — Foundations	1/5/20 — Christmas Gifts
12/22/19 — Joseph’s Scandalous Righteousness	12/15/19 — Rejoicing in the “Already” but “Not Yet”
12/8/19 —Choosing Sides	12/1/19 — Living in Constant Expectation
11/24/19 — Is declaring Christ the King fake news?	11/17/19 — Two Visions
11/10/19 — That Game of “If this…then what?”	11/3/19 — Reformation, All Saints’ and All Souls’
10/27/19 — Making Comparisons	10/20/19 — The Trouble Making Widow
10/13/19 — Location and Direction	10/6/19 – Upsizing Faith?
9/29/19 — Why Do You Prophesy	9/22/19 — Being Shrewd or Unethical?
9/15/19 — About Sinners	9/8/19 — Jesus’ Cost Benefit Analysis
9/1/19 — Cracked Pots and Vain Guests	8/25/19 — What Does the Lord Require?
8/18/19 — Gardening Issues	8/11/19 — Those Things Not Seen
8/4/19 — Enough Stuff	7/28/19 — Lord, Teach Me
7/21/19 — Ripe Fruit	7/14/19 — Questions Galore
7/07/19 — Two Callings	6/30/19 — Our Predicament
6/23/19 — Enough Is Enough	6/16/19 — Trinity Matters
6/9/19 — Scattering and Gathering	6/2/19 — Jesus’ Prayer
5/26/19 — Waiting	5/12/19 — Noticing Details
5/5/19 — Two Questions	4/28/19 — Witness: Noun or Verb
4/14/19 — Parade or March	4/7/19 — Remember or Forget
3/31/19 — Becoming	3/24/19 — Following the Way
3/17/19 — A Bipolar Text	3/10/19 — Anyone Can Quote Scripture
3/3/19 — Mountain Top Experiences	2/24/19 — Not Them
2/10/19 — Calls and Responses	2/3/19 — This Thing Called Love
1/27/19 — Oneness	1/13/19 — Claimed
1/6/19 — Have You Had An Epiphany Lately?	12/30/18 — The Human Jesus
12/23/18 — Blessed?	12/16/18 — Singing for Joy
12/9/18 — Being refined	12/2/18 — Hope
11/25/18 — King of Kings? Where and When	11/18/18 — The End Times
11/11/18 — Observations	11/4/18 — Shema
10/28/18 — Blindness	10/21/18 — The Wrong Question
10/14/18 — Attachments	10/7/18 — We See Jesus
9/30/18 — Taking Sides	9/16/18 — Didn’t Sign Up for That
9/9/18 — Even the Dogs	9/2/18 — What’s the Problem?
8/26/18 — Not Just Bread Anymore	8/19/18 — Meeting the Carnal God
8/12/18 — Bread Again	8/5/18 — More Than Enough
7/22/18 — What is Compassion?	7/8/18 — Going Home and Sending Off
7/1/18 — Known and Named	6/24/18 — Remember What You Don’t Know
6/10/18 — Demanding Kings in Our Lives	6/3/18 — Dimmed Vision
5/27/18 — Biblical Numerology	5/20/18 — Encounters with the Holy Spirit
5/13/18 — 1 What Next?	5/6/18 — The Love Commandment
4/29/18 — The Eunuch’s Name	4/22/18 — Shepherding Job Description
4/15/18 — You Are Witnesses of These Things	4/8/18 — True Koinonia
4/1/18 — At the Empty Tomb	3/25/18 — Do We Understand?
3/18/18 — Heart Transplant	3/11/18 — Hiding in the Dark
3/4/18 — God’s Foolishness	2/25/18 — Denying Self
2/18/18 — Wilderness	2/11/18 — Explaining Mysteries
2/4/18 —Day Two	1/21/18 — Jonah: The Reluctant Prophet
1/14/18 — Listening and Seeing	1/7/18 — Beginnings
12/31/17 — God's Odd Cast of Characters	12/24/17 — How can this be?
12/17/17 — Witness	12/10/17 — What are we waiting for?
11/26/17 — Sorting	/11/19/17 — Merit Badges
11/12/17 — Be Prepared	11/5/17 — Saints—Under Construction
10/29/17 — Reformation Sunday Sin, Slavery and Short Term Memory	10/22/17 — A Loaded Question
10/15/17 — Parables—from dark to ugly	10/8/17 — Tending God’s Vineyard
10/1/17 — Authority and Obedience	9/24/17 — It's Not Fair!
9/17/17 — Keeping Score	9/10/17 — Ringtones
9/3/17 — Can You Imagine?	8/27/17 — Identity
8/20/17 — Even Them...	8/13/17 — What’s the Point?
8/6/17 — God's Economic System	7/30/17 — Multiple Choice
7/23/17 — Wheat and Tares	7/16/17 — Being Good Soil
7/9/17 — Being Yoked	7/2/17 — Small Gestures
6/25/17 — Open Your Eyes	6/18/17 — Bearing a Resemblance
6/11/17 — Trinity: The Divine Dance	6/4/17 — Language—More Than Words
5/28/17 — τήρησον	5/21/17 — Spectators or Witnesses?
5/14/17 — Our GPS	5/7/17 — Bandit Shepherds and Gated Communities
4/30/17 — The Road to Emmaus: A Metaphor	4/23/17 — Faithful Doubting
4/16/17 — 1 Living a Story that Goes Somewhere	4/9/17 — The Crown and the Cross
4/2/17 — Present Tense Salvation	3/26/17 — Blindness and Sight
3/19/17 — The Woman at the Well	3/12/17 — So Abram Went
3/5/17 — Sin’s Source	2/26/17 — Transfiguration: Changed—it matters
2/19/17 — Perfect? Seriously?	2/12/17 — Making Choices/Breaking Laws
2/5/17 — Our Job Description	1/29/17 — What God Requires
1/22/17 — Words Matter	1/15/17 — Notice, Share, Invite
1/8/17 — A Conversation by the Jordan	1/1/17 — Things to Ponder
12/25/16 — Singing a New Song	12/18/16 — Joseph and the Nativity
12/11/16 — Do you see what I see?	12/4/16 — What is HE Doing Here?
11/27/16 — Being Ready	11/20/16 — Christos Kyrious
11/13/16 — Reading the Signs	11/6/16 — What happens if…?
10/30/16 — Zacchaeus and the Reformation	10/23/16 — Keeping Score
10/16/16 — Are These the Days?	10/9/16 — Between Samaria and Galilee
10/2/16 — Some Expectations for the Small and Lowly	9/25/16 — Being Blind or Just Not Seeing
9/18/16 — Let’s Make a Deal	9/11/16 — Errant Sheep and Misplaced Coins
9/4/16 — Discipleship and Crosses	8/28/16 — Places at the Table
8/21/16 — What about the rule?	8/14/16 — Good News…Fire on Earth?
8/7/16 —To fear or not to fear	7/31/16 — Big Barns and Tiny Houses
7/24/16 — Negotiating with God	7/17/16 — Summer Fruit
7/10/16 — I know, but…	7/3/16 —Two Mule Loads of Dirt
6/26/16 — Road Trip	6/19/16 — Legion
6/12/16 — Being Too Good for Your Own Good	6/5/16 — Placing Trust
5/29/16 — “The Show Me” People	5/22/16 — The Starting Point
5/15/16 — Pentecost in the Present Tense	5/8/16 — On being one…
5/1/16 — No Questions? Well, just one.	4/24/16 — Love WHO? Love HOW?
4/17/16 — On Being Sheep	4/10/16 — Gone Fishing
4/3/16 — Reality: Old and New	3/27/16 — The Empty Tomb: One Event, Two Accounts
3/20/16 — Parades	3/13/16 — Anointing
3/6/16 — Misleading Titles	2/28/16 — God’s Ways and Ours
2/21/16 —Truth and Consequences	2/14/16 — The Devil Quotes Scriptures
2/7/16 — Jesus’ Inaugural Address: Part 2	1/24/16 — Jesus’ Inaugural Address
1/17/16 — Sign or Miracle	1/10/16 — H2O: A simple thing
1/3/16 — Apocalypse or Epiphany	12/27/15 — Growing in Stature
12/20/15 — An Upside Down World	12/13/15 — Judgment: An invitation to Joy?
12/6/15 — Preparing the Way	11/29/15 — Beginning at the End
11/22/15 — King of What	11/8/15 — Our Mite
11/1/15 — Shema	10/25/15 — Seeing
10/18/15 — Downward Mobility	10/11/15 — The Thing Lacked
10/4/15 — Sticky Wicket	9/27/15 — Echoes of Silence
9/20/15 — What We Want	9/13/15 — NOW you tell us!
8/30/15 — Religion and Religion-ness	8/23/15 — A Hard Teaching
8/16/15 — Living Bread	8/9/15 — From Where?
8/2/15 — Seeking Satisfaction	7/19/15 — Tending to Sheep
7/12/15 — Speaking Truth	7/5/15 — Rejecting or Receiving
6/28/15 — Known	6/21/15 — True Power
6/14/15 — It’s Like What?	6/7/15 — Plan B
5/31/15 — Trinity Sunday: Threeness	5/24/15 — Pentecost: Historical Account or Current Reality?
5/17/15 — Silly Questions?	5/10/15 — Breaking Barriers
5/3/15 — Pruning	4/26/15 — Flocks and fold
4-19-15 — Faith and Doubt	4/12/15 — Koinonia
4/5/15 — They said nothing?	3/29/15 — Palm Sunday Power Parody
3/22/15 — What time is it?	3/15/15 — Like it or not
3/8/15 — House Cleaning or Clearing?	3/1/15 — Bearing Crosses?
2/22/15 — In the Wilderness	Ash Wednesday — Being Marked
2/15/15 — Mountaintop Visons	2/8/15 — Our Balancing Act
2/1/15 — Authority and Being Right	1/25/15 — Jonah: Loving to Hate
1/18/15 — Samuel 3.1-20: Invitations	1/11/15 — Mark 1. 4-11: Baptism of the Lord
1/4/15 —John 1-1-18: In the Beginning...	12/28/14 — Luke 2:21-40 According to the Law
12/21/14 — Good News or Bad?	12/7/14 — Mark 1:1-8: The Beginning
11/30/14 — Isaiah 64: 1-9/Mark 13: 24-37: The Advent Puzzle	11/23/14 — Matthew 25: 31-46: Surprises
11/16/14 — Matthew 25:14-30: Kingdom Vision or Wisdom Observation	11/9/14 — Matthew 25:1-13: Oil for Our Lamps
11/2/14 — Matthew 23:1-12: The Problem with Words	10/26/14 — Matthew 22: 34-40: Hinges
10/19/14 — Matthew 22: 15-22: Allegiances	10/12/14 — Matthew 22: 1-14: Not a Parable for Sunday School
10/5/14 — Matt. 21: 33-46: Who are the Tenants in the Vineyard?	9/28/14 — Matt. 21:23-32: Says Who?
9/21/14 — Matt. 20:1-16: Generous or Unfair?	9/14/14 — Matt. 18:21-35: The Jesus Math
9/7/14 — Matt. 18: 15-20: If…, then what??	8/31/14 — Matt. 16: 21-26: I now Challenge…

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