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Since Before Your Borning Cry

Date: July 20, 2025
Scripture: Genesis 18:1-15
Preacher: Rev. Eileen Parfrey

That laugh of Sarah’s has been bugging me all week. If it’s true that “laughter is carbonated faith,” then why do so many biblical scholars characterize Sarah’s laugh as cynical ingratitude? Those two oldsters (Abraham and Sarah) have waited 24 years for the fulfillment of a promise made six chapters earlier—a promise of place, progeny, … read

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Song of Summber

Date: June 22, 2025
Preacher: Rev. Lindsey Hubbard-Groves

As of Friday, even with all the madness happening in the world, it is officially summer. We’re commemorating with jazz music, sending our youth off on their service-learning trip, and eating ice cream before noon, inside. We come to this space to remind ourselves that we are not God, and thus don’t control if this … read

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Who Is Liberating Whom?

Date: June 1, 2025
Scripture: Acts 16:16-39
Preacher: Rev. Eileen Parfrey

Today’s story of Paul and Silas singing in prison puts me in mind of the timeless dilemma faced by the philosopher Lucy Van Pelt (of Peanuts comic strip fame): “Why do I have to have ups and downs? Why can’t I have ups and ups?” Paul and Silas are in the midst of downs and … read

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One Mother’s Model for Life

Date: May 11, 2025
Scripture: Psalm 23 (MSG), Acts 9:36-41 (NRSVue)
Preacher: Rev. Junha Kim

It makes a lot of sense that Psalm 23 falls in the Easter season, because it describes the new life Jesus invites us into—one of rest in lush meadows, one where our hunger and thirst are satisfied without noise, one of no despair, where dropping heads are revived and our cups are brimming with blessings, … read

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Sequels

Date: May 5, 2025
Preacher: Rev. Lindsey Hubbard-Groves

Part One: Scripture Review I want to offer a context for our scripture today. A book club bonus, if you will. We’ll focus on the Book of Acts in the coming weeks, called the Acts of the Apostles or Acts of the Holy Spirit. Acts and how its stories are often used in the church … read

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Remembering

Date: April 13, 2025
Scripture: Luke 19:29-40
Preacher: Rev. Lindsey Hubbard-Groves

Today is what the church traditionally calls Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday. It is the beginning of the end of Lent, the gates to Holy Week and Easter. Naturally then, I’d like to speak with you about Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve, 15 months ago, Eliz, our smart and incredibly welcoming Director of Children’s Ministry, had … read

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