Grandma Mosley
To listen to this sermon, click here. Hebrew Scripture Reading—Deuteronomy 34: 1-12 Sasha was sixteen and could not seem to adjust back to life as normal. She had returned to
Continue readingA Mission and Vision of Love: Letter from the Pastor
Dear Church Family and Friends, In the midst of the recent attention given to the suicides of gay teenagers, a writer for The Nation named Richard Kim made some points
Continue readingIn Praise of Asaph: Celebrating our Music Director
In the Bible—in both the Hebrew Scripture and the New Testament—the name Asaph appears over 30 times. Often an unsung hero, our scripture for today points to his significance for
Continue readingEmails from Jamaica: A Communion Story
To listen to this sermon, click here. New Testament Reading—1 Corinthians 10: 16-17 First a disclaimer: The following story is from the point of view of a fictional character named
Continue readingThe Life of Longing
To listen to this sermon, click here. Hebrew Scripture Reading—Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 One of my least favorite memories of college was the semester I decided to take a course entirely devoted
Continue readingSomewhere in Vancouver
To listen to this sermon, click here. Hebrew Scripture Reading—Jeremiah 32: 1-3, 6-15 This morning I suspect that somewhere in Vancouver there is someone who at this very moment feels
Continue readingThe Greatest Flood Since Noah
Listen to this sermon by clicking here. Hebrew Scripture Reading—Genesis 7: 11-15 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the
Continue readingThe Mother of All Novels: Letter from the Pastor
Dear Church Family and Friends, Recently, I compiled a list of ten books that I thought I needed to read for one reason or another. I have created similar reading
Continue readingAn Invitation to Monkey Around: Letter from the Pastor
Dear Church Family and Friends, Two years ago my then four-year-old niece introduced me to the pleasures of making monkey bread. For the uninitiated, monkey bread is a sticky, gooey
Continue readingWho Will Stand up for Workers?
To listen to this sermon, click here. Hebrew Scripture Reading—Ecclesiastes 4: 1-12 Last year a group of researchers from various think tanks published a study on working conditions that was
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