Listen to the sermon from Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016 titled “Look for the Living” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. This past Monday dawned with news of another terrorist bombing, this time in Brussels. For hours the news was all confusion and speculation, different networks with different details, a rising death toll and apocalyptic reports […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, March 13, 2016 titled “Pressing On” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. Only two weeks left in Lent, the most spiritually focused season of the Christian year. Yet there are so many distractions: Spring break, South by Southwest, political campaigns, business as usual – the world doesn’t stop for Lent, […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, March 6, 2016 titled “Get Lost” by Rev. Brent Bowden of The Sanctuary.
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, February 28, 2016 titled “Who Am I? Who Are You?” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune.
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, February 14, 2016 titled “Love Test” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. I love writing sermons and planning worship with creative people like Stephanie and Landry is fun, but sometimes we face, well, let’s call it “cultural dissonance.” The Christian year and lectionary provide themes and texts, but the […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, February 7, 2016 titled “Lost in Spectacle” by guest preacher George Oliver. During my undergraduate years, I was forced into a lot of classes that would drain the life right out of me. And though I love her today, perhaps the single most cringe-inducing of them, based on […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, January 31, 2016 titled “Resistance” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. I want to recognize all the ministers at UBC today. We know our staff, of course, but there are others here. If you are a minister of the gospel, please raise your hand and keep them up so […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, January 24, 2016 titled “This is Our Sacred Story” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. Jews do this. Muslims do this. Christians do this. At least once a week they gather to worship the Ultimate by reading stories from an old book and talking about them. Writes Dennis Hamm: […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, January 17, 2016 titled “All for One, and One for All” by Rev. Dr. Larry Bethune. Tomorrow is a national holiday to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The iconic hero of the American Civil Rights Movement is best known for his nonviolent […]
Listen to the sermon from Sunday, January 3, 2016 titled “The Word Became Flesh and Dwelt Among Us” by Rev. Stephanie Cooper. This Christmas Eve, Ashley and I had friends who had a baby. We are at that point in our lives when a lot of our friends are beginning to have babies. My facebook […]