Heartbreak, Grief, Loss. God Understands

Over the last several weeks we’ve been talking about prophets in these Sunday morning sermons:  Deborah, Jeremiah, Amos…Jana will continue the series later this month and today we come to Hosea. I like the book of Hosea.  When I first read Hosea, I was moved to discover that God cares about regular human struggles like […]

On these days when our members have been on their Civil Rights journey, I want to call your attention to a quotation that our travelers saw on a memorial in Montgomery, Alabama; it was one of Dr. King’s favorites:  “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream…”   It is a biblical […]

Even before last night’s news about Iran, I have been thinking, praying, wrestling with the amount of violence in our daily news cycle. Today I will share with you a story from the Book of Judges that I hope will be helpful. The point is rather simple: that Christian can be realists with respect to […]

A big thanks to Beth Ehrsam for sharing a story this morning about how mission has been transformative in her life; and a big thanks is due to our Mission and Social Concerns Committee and its dedicated members who have prepared a Mission Fair for us today, highlighting the work of five of our Knox […]

Some Sundays, we talk about church holidays:  Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, or Reign of Christ Sunday; days that most people don’t think about outside of church, and the biblical message we share that day.  We continue to observe them because, as some people go deeper in their Christian journey, marking these moments in the story of […]

Today’s sermon is called “Easter—Part 3.”  When it comes to sermon titles, I am dependably lazy and uncreative and this one is certainly proof of that, but it is also my way of making a point:  Most of us think of Easter as a day, and yes, that’s true.  But it is also meant to […]