2022
Please enjoy the sermons below from 2022. All messages are organized by series beginning with the most recent. Individual sermon titles link to brief written reflections on each message.
Happy “Holy” Days
“One person considers some days to be more sacred than others, while another person considers all days to be the same. Each person must have their own convictions. Someone who thinks that a day is sacred, thinks that way for the Lord. ”
Romans 14:5-6 (CEB)
Dreaming God’s Dreams
But this is precisely what is written: God has prepared things for those who love him that no eye has seen, or ear has heard, or that haven’t crossed the mind of any human being. God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, including the depths of God."
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 (CEB)
A God Who Weeps
See what I’ve done? I’ve given you a job to do among nations and governments—a red-letter day! Your job is to pull up and tear down, take apart and demolish, And then start over, building and planting.”
Jeremiah 1:10 (The Message)
Let the Children Come
Whoever becomes simple and elemental again, like this child, will rank high in God’s kingdom. What’s more, when you receive the childlike on my account, it’s the same as receiving me.
Matthew 18:5 (The Message)
“Let the Children Come” - Sermon Reflections
08/07/22 - Like A Child (Back to School Sunday Worship Video)
08/14/22 - A Mother’s Heart
08/21/22 - Heaven’s Whisper
08/28/22 - Just Your Boy
Burning Questions
If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.
James 1:5
The Eternal Dance
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
John 16:13
Church
Simon Peter said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Then Jesus replied, “Happy are you, Simon son of Jonah, because no human has shown this to you. Rather my Father who is in heaven has shown you. I tell you that you are Peter. And I’ll build my church on this rock. The gates of the underworld won’t be able to stand against it.
- Matthew 16:16-18
I Have Seen!
Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
- John 20:18
“I Have Seen!” - Sermon Reflections for Easter, 2022
04/17/22 - Linger a Little Longer (Easter Sunday)
04/24/22 - Devoted Thomas
05/01/22 - When the Rooster Crows
Our Father
Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.
- Matthew 6:9-13
“Our Father” - Sermon Reflections for Lent, 2022
03/06/22 - Our Father
03/13/22 - Thy Kingdom Come
03/20/22 - Our Daily Bread
03/27/22 - Forgive As We Forgive
04/03/22 - Deliver Us
04/10/22 - For Thine is the Kingdom
Yeshua: The Jesus We Never Knew
“Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest!”
- Matthew 21:9
“Yeshua: The Jesus We Never Knew” - Sermon Reflections
01/09/22 - Love through a Jewish Heart (Rev. McKenzie Sefa)
01/23/22 - When Enemy Becomes Neighbor
01/30/22 - Thank God I’m Not _______
02/06/22 - Noticing What Is Lost
02/13/22 - What Are You Looking For?
02/20/22 - The Radical Grace of a Living Wage
02/27/22 - The First Creed