Sermon Podcast

  • What We Do and Who We Are

    Jesus says good trees grow good fruit and bad trees go bad fruit. Solzhenitsyn says the line between good and evil runs through every human heart, and that great theologian Batman (perhaps borrowing from Aristotle) says “It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.” So what is the relationship between…

  • Don’t Write Me Off

    A sermon about the ways we write people off, and the dangers of that, and of allowing ourselves to be written off, and the way God doesn’t write us off.

  • Sermons From Children

    The Christian church has a long legacy of teaching the faith to children, but Jesus says the Kingdom of God already belongs to children, and whoever does not come as a child will not enter it, so perhaps it is the adults who need to learn the faith from children. Rev. David Schell shares a…

  • Faithful Doubt and the Bare Minimum

    When you come across a tough passage of scripture, what do you do? Do you… Decide to reject the Bible in general and that passage in particular? Just skim over it and let it go past? Accept that “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it?” or Wrestle with it until you find…

  • Go First

    Sometimes when we do something first, it empowers and encourages others who see it to do it too.

  • What We Say To Our Hearts

    In our modern culture, we have been taught to listen to our hearts, but it is also very important what we say to our hearts.

  • Casting Out the Silence

    Guest preacher and former Presbytery Executive Rev. Dr. John Best brings a powerful sermon about the importance of not remaining silent in the face of injustice.

  • Abigail

    Abigail is stuck in a marriage to a surly man who won’t listen to anyone. When the leader of a band of rogues comes to try to extort her husband for goods for protection, she takes a leap of faith.

  • Michal’s Moment

    What if that story about David’s first wife Michal despising him when he danced the ark into Jerusalem was missing some important context? A note: One church member pointed out that David does promise the throne to Solomon – but he does so only in Chronicles, which was written centuries after David’s reign and often…

  • Have a Little Faith

    In Matthew, Jesus says not to take oaths. Why does he say that, and what does it have to do with us today?