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This morning was “Mama’s Day” at Crossroads, a service dedicated to the ministry of our mission partner in Busia, Kenya. The Mama Orphans Children’s Home has provided shelter, food, and education to children orphaned by AIDS for more than 20 years. Today Rev. Cari preached for Mama’s Day, which is unusual. More often, she privileges…
This week, for the fifth Sunday in the season of Easter, Rev. Cari preached a sermon that pulled together Acts 8:26-40 with her recent reading of Andrew Solomon’s 2001 book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. Today is the threshold of “Mental Health Awareness Week” which caused her to make this choice. The story of the conversion…
The fourth Sunday of the Great Fifty Days of Easter is always “Shepherding Sunday,” so today our texts were Psalm 23, and John 10:11-18. Rev. Cari preached on the text from John, pulling out the Easter themes of 1) making sense of the apparent “failure” of the crucifixion, and 2) recognition of the presence of…
For the third Sunday of Easter, Rev. Cari preaches on Luke 24:36b-48, the story following that of last Sunday. It is still Easter evening, and the Risen Christ appears to his followers, who still are not expecting to see him, and so don’t recognize him. “Peace be with you,” is his greeting, a greeting that…
For the Sunday after Easter, Dr. Bruce Harding reflects on the text from Luke 24:13-35, the story of “the road to Emmaus.” He first lifts up the moment of recognition, when the Risen Christ breaks the bread and the two disciples know that it is Jesus with them. Then he notes how early sharing food…
Preaching on Mark 16:1-8, Rev. Cari opened with a direct acknowledgment of this, our second COVID Easter, amid the brokenness of our world. Then she shared references from two articles she received in her inbox during the week, before fully leaping into the text. When grief lies as heavily upon our flesh as a stone…
Rev. Cari’s sermon for Palm Sunday was based on the story of Jesus’ “triumphal entry” into Jerusalem, as it is found in Mark 11:1-11. In this sermon, she explodes the notion we have somehow inherited, that “Hosanna” means “Hooray!” and restores its true meaning, which is actually, “Save us!” In the sermon, she doesn’t deny…
For the fifth Sunday in Lent, Rev. Cari preached a combination sermon, starting with Ezekiel 47:1-12 and then incorporating Romans 6:15-23 as well. The surprise in the sermon is that sanctification – a process we typically think of as involving we humans becoming holier, or more like Jesus – in the text from Romans is…
For the fourth Sunday in Lent, Gabrielle preached on Romans 5:1-11, a text (she says in the sermon) which, when she first read it, made her sigh. So we can be grateful for her second look which produced such an affirming (of grace) and hopeful sermon about God’s action in our lives to mend the…
For the second Sunday in Lent, Rev. Cari preached on Grace. The text was Romans 4:1-5 and 13-17, in which Paul discusses Abraham and Sarah. Cari used a translation from her New Testament professor at VST, the late Dr. Lloyd Gaston, which emphasizes the “faithfulness of God” much more than conventional understandings. She also referred…
