Reformation Sunday

October 27, 2024

CALL TO WORSHIP

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble; therefore we will not fear.

Though the earth should quake and the mountains shake and topple into the depths of the sea.

There is a river, whose streams make glad the city of God.

God is in the midst of the city;

22nd Sunday after Pentecost

October 20, 2024

CALL TO WORSHIP
How dear to us is your dwelling, O Lord of hosts!
Our souls long for your courts; our hearts rejoice in the living God!
Happy are those who dwell in your house, always singing your praises.
Happy the people whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on the pilgrim way.
For the Lord blesses us with grace and glory.

Crisis of Faith

Sermon for the 21st Sunday after Pentecost
October 13, 2024

Remember Monty Python? I remember in high school one of my favorite lines was, “And now for something completely different.” I want to open this sermon in a way that’s very different from my usual way of beginning. Please turn to page 747 in the back of your hymnals, and let’s read Psalm 95:1-7 responsively. (You may remain seated):

21st Sunday after Pentecost

October 13, 2024

CALL TO WORSHIP
O come, let us sing to the Lord.
Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
Let us come into God’s presence with thanksgiving.
Let us make a joyful noise to God with songs of praise!

The Reflection of God's Glory

Sermon for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost
October 6, 2024

When we’re younger, other people see it in us—they see our parents in the way we look or the way we act or the things we say. I never paid much attention to this as a kid, or even as a younger adult. But now that I’m on the edge of Medicare, I see it myself. I look in the mirror and I see my grandfather’s neck and my father’s nose—not their neck and nose when they were in their

World Communion Sunday

October 6, 2024

CALL TO WORSHIP
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Happy are all who take refuge in him.
People will come from the east and west, from the north and south, to eat in the kingdom of God.
The last will be first and the first will be last.

—Ps 34:8, Luke 13:29-30