by Rev. Ashley Harness | Feb 8, 2021 | sermons
Scripture: Psalm 147 It was early on Thursday morning when I checked my email on my phone and yelped out loud “Oh my God!” and jumped in excitement. My mom who lives with Parkinson’s and lives with my family, on whose behalf I feel like I have felt like I’ve been...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Dec 24, 2020 | sermons
My first thought when I read this text this year, was “No, don’t go, Mary and Joseph! Don’t go, shepherds! Shelter in place!” My friends, it has been a strange year. That phrase, “shelter in place,” didn’t even exist in our shared imagination last Christmas Eve. And...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Apr 12, 2020 | sermons
Matthew 28: 1-10 I imagine Mary Magdalene and Mary, Jesus’ mother, had been holding the fear and joy that comes from loving somebody of such passion deeply for some time… but especially these last weeks. Their whole world had become more tense in these recently. There...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Jan 12, 2020 | sermons
Matthew 3:13-17 Listen here: The closest thing to the baptism of Jesus I’ve been a part of was the first baptism I ever officiated. It was exquisite and awful, all at the same time. It happened in the middle of the night in the neo-natal intensive care unit in a...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Dec 1, 2019 | sermons
Scripture: Matthew 24:36-44 Today is the first Sunday of Advent. It’s the Sunday we light the candle of hope on the Advent wreath, settle into the season’s darkness and wait the next month in holy anticipation, in preparation and prayer for the gift of Divine Love to...
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