Rev. Matthew Miller FROM THE LAW Genesis 1:1—2:4a click here to watch the Sermon "Very Good" I posed a question on social media this week about things people had come to see differently. A colleague of mine who I’ve known for over 20 years said he’d changed his mind about something called the Revised Common Lectionary. That’s the three year cycle of Sunday readings that we generally use for worship that follow the seasons of the church year. He once, and I’m quoting here, “th

Rev. Essie Koenig-Reinke FROM THE GOSPELS Luke 24:44-53 click here to watch the Sermon “Blessing” Luke 24:44-5344 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah[a] is[b] to suffer and to rise from the dead on the

Rev. Matthew Miller FROM THE ACTS Acts 2:42-47 click here to watch the sermon "Saved" I was talking to a colleague not long ago about sermon titles. He was of the opinion that sermons shouldn’t be titled until they were written- not finished, because sermons are rarely finished. Even when the preacher has said all that she, or he has to say, the hope is that the work of the Spirit in our minds and lives is ongoing. But I digress. I remarked how if that were the rule then none