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 […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, May 29, 2016 titled “Following the Wrong God Home” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, May 15, 2016 titled “Confusion or Community?” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. Today we celebrate Pentecost when the Spirit came upon the disciples and created the church. God’s invisible abiding presence, which we call “the Holy Spirit” was symbolized from early rabbinic times by a dove. And to this […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, May 8, 2016 titled “Christ Nowhere = Christ Everywhere” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. We come again to that great moment of transition in the gospel story: the ascension of Christ. After the trauma of the crucifixion and the glorious day of resurrection, Jesus appears across forty days […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, May 1, 2016 titled “Valid” by Rev. Stephanie Cooper. One morning this week on my way to the church I was flipping through the radio stations, which is unlike my usual habit- No, we don’t have one of those fancy cars that you tell Siri to turn on Beyonce […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, April 17, 2016 titled “Who Needs a Shepherd?” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. The twenty-third psalm is one of the best known of all scripture. Generations have memorized it in the King James translation. I have been with dementia patients who could not tell you their name but would […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, April 3, 2016 titled “Hope for the Journey” by Rev. Stephanie Cooper. God who is beyond our understanding- who comes and dwells among us, speak to us today. Teach us your way of love, compassion, hope and presence. Be present with us now and open a new understanding […]