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.

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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