Rev. Matthew Miller FROM THE LAW Exodus 3:1-15 click here to watch the sermon “Name” Names matter. What someone, or something is called is a critical part of shaping their identity. Some of you have noticed that when I take the stage around town I use the shortened version of my name. I do it in part to distinguish between my avocation on stage and my vocation as pastor. Think about your own name, what people have called you all your life, and how it affects the way you thin

Rev. Matthew Miller FROM THE GOSPELS Matthew 7:21-27 click here to watch the Sermon“Build" It’s been fifteen years, but I’m not sure that I’ll ever forget the summer of 2011 in northwest Iowa. Sometime around Memorial Day weekend people noticed the Missouri River had risen. That itself wasn’t too surprising. Rivers rise in the late spring into early summer. Around here it happens when the snowpack melts and makes its way into the Rio Grande. In our corner of the Midwest, it w

Rev. Matthew Miller FROM THE GOSPELS Matthew 7:1-6 SERMON “Specks and Logs” We have moved into the final act of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount as recorded in Matthew’s gospel. This summer we have listened as Jesus describes for us life in the kingdom, or kinship of Heaven that has come near; what Jesus would have us turn toward and hear as good news. It’s good news that can get lost when we reduce faith and this project we call church to little more than one of sin management. Wh