by Rev. Ashley Harness | Feb 9, 2020 | Sermons
Matthew 5:13-20 Listen here; This has been one of those weeks. I’ve sent out more prayer requests to you all in the last week or so than in the last few months, meaning things are tough on the home-front for many of us. And it has been beyond what I anticipated by a...
by admin | Feb 2, 2020 | Sermons
Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12 Listen here: January 21st, 2017. Inauguration day. I stood in a crowd of thousands in a parking lot in St. Paul getting ready to march towards the capital, complete with our pink hats and all the energy of freshly ignited resistance. I had...
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. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel | Dec 24, 2019 | Sermons
I love Christmas Eve… as a child of the North, I love the warmth amidst the often-bitter cold. I love the soft yellow light of candles and Christmas trees illuminated after a 4 pm sunset. I love the stars that shine even amidst the light pollution of the city—as if...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Dec 22, 2019 | Sermons
Luke 1 Listen here: There was visit from an angel and a moment of ecstatic, mystical prayer. With joy, she had consented to God’s action and presence to bring about new life and a new world through her body and soul. But then reality’s weight bore down on her. She was...
by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel | Dec 8, 2019 | Sermons
Matthew 3:1-12 Listen here: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here…. Until the Child of God appear. Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel, shall come to you, O Israel. Sometimes when there is a prescribed season of the church (like...
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