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Rev. Matthew Miller FROM THE GOSPELS Matthew 26:57-68 Click here to watch the sermon "False" Before we consider this account of Jesus’ trial before the high priest, Caiaphas, and the temple scribes and elders, I want to back up for a second to explain why we’ve diverted from our practice of hearing texts from the shared cycle of readings to examine these readings from what’s known as the passion narrative. When Jesus set his face toward Jerusalem, these are the events he knew

Rev. Essie Koenig-Reinke FROM THE GOSPELS Matthew 26:36-46 click here to watch the sermon “Stay" When I was about Lucy’s age, around four years old,  I became captivated by a book called Linea in Monet’s Garden by Bjork & Lena Anderson. The story is about a young girl in New York City who learns about the artist Claude Monet from her elderly downstairs neighbor, and eventually they take a trip together to visit his home and garden in Giverny, France. Since then monet artwork

Rev. Matthew Miller FROM THE GOSPELS Matthew 17:1-9 Click here to watch the Sermon "Listen." There are two things that happen when Jesus takes Peter and the brothers James and John up the high mountain of our reading this morning. The first is so big and obvious and overwhelming that it could literally blind us to the second. Jesus and the disciples that follow, have been all over the countryside of Galilee together watching and learning from him. It’s been an education in th

Rev. Matthew Miller FROM THE PROPHETS Micah 6:1-8 Click here to watch the Sermon " Required." By now, I suspect we’ve all got the last verse of that reading down. Many of you may have been familiar with it before today. As bible verses go, it is definitely one of the greatest hits. I’ve got a calligraphy version of it by Ralph Douglass in a frame next to the door of my office. In some ways though it reminds me a little of Bruce Springsteen’s hit song from the 1984 album of

Rev. Essie Koenig-Reinke Matthew 4:12-23 Click here to watch the Sermon "Follow Me" This week, hundreds of clergy dropped whatever they were doing and traveled to Minnesota, to faithfully call an end to ICE’s violence and cruelty in Minneapolis. On Friday morning in freezing temperatures, they went out by the hundreds, tracking ICE and noting their activities, participating in sing-ins in state and federal buildings and more than 100 local clergy were arrested while peacefull

Rev. Matthew Miller FROM THE PSALMS 40 Click here to watch the sermon "A New Song" I know that the month of January is already halfway over (how did that happen?) so you may have already broken whatever New Year’s resolutions you made a couple of weeks ago. Don’t feel bad. Those can be hard to keep. Maybe instead you could make a week to week resolution to be in worship with your church community. And if you can’t be here in person, you can always tune into the livestream, or

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