Listen to the sermon from Sunday, September 18, 2016 titled “Mammon,True Riches, and Thoughts About a Shrewd Manager” by Rev. Stephanie Cooper. The true riches of God are found in this: friends, family, relationships, and being people of the light. The currency of true riches is not comparable to the currency of mammon. A few […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, September 11, 2016 titled “All in One” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. Back in my seminary days I signed up for a clinical trial of a new blood pressure medication sponsored by Squibb Pharmaceuticals in Princeton. They paid $600 for me to stay in a clinic over a long […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, September 4, 2016 titled “Something Greater Than You” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. Almost every church I know bends over backwards to make following Jesus easy. Nothing is expected. Nothing is required. “Come as you are,” we say. Would could be stranger to our ears than this invitation […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, August 28, 2016 titled “Where’s the Lord?” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. Jeremiah is known as “the weeping prophet” because of his self-reflective laments anticipating modern psychotherapy. But in our passage today, it is God who is whining and weeping. “What wrong did your ancestors find in me that […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, August 14, 2016 titled “Finding the Faith to Finish” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. When my brothers and I were clearing out my parent’s home, we came across a stack of family albums and a shoebox crammed with old black and white pictures. Not a selfie in the […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, August 7, 2016 titled “Habits” by Rev. Stephanie Cooper. Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” Excellence is not a single act, but a habit that we create. And some habits are fairly to get into. Making […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, July 31, 2016 titled “God’s Inner Conflict” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. Some years ago in a children’s sermon Gina asked the children to describe God as she drew a picture on a dry erase board. An impossible task, of course, which was the point. But try as […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, July 17, 2016 titled “Prayer-Works” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. Immediately after the story of the Good Samaritan we heard last week, Luke gives us the story of the M&M sisters. Mary and Martha, with their brother Lazarus, would become Jesus’ BFF’s. But Luke gives us what seems to […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, July 3, 2016 titled “Co-Missioners” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. Last week we heard the call of our spiritual freedom in Christ to be part of a community creating God’s space on earth. Still have your piece of the puzzle? We each took one as a reminder of […]
Y’all know I don’t reuse my old sermons. They may all sound the same, but I assure you each one’s new. Except for this one, which I have preached to you about every five years. Last Sunday was my 29th anniversary at UBC, and since our lectionary scripture today is the text I preached on […]