Sermons
Sermon – You Are Worthy- Pastor Paisley Le Roy
May 1, 2022- I remember so clearly when I began to sense that God was calling me to ministry. It wasn't Saul's sudden flash of light, blinding him for days. It wasn't in the disciples' miraculous catch of fish that happens right before today's passage. I was though in...
Sermon- Life Is God’s Response to Death- Pastor Sarah Rohde
April 24, 2022 So, here we are. The week after Easter Sunday. The glorious crescendos of last weekend have subsided a bit. The gathered crowd is a bit smaller today. Our Sunday best clothes that we pulled out last weekend, for maybe the first time in years, are...
Sermon – Easter- Pastor Paisley Le Roy
April 17, 2022- The women returned to the disciples to tell what they had found “but these words seemed to them an idle tale and they did not believe them.” I don’t know about you, but I can resonate with the disciple’s disbelief. I can understand how their words...
Sermon- Palm Sunday- Pastor Sarah Rohde
April 10, 2022 Today is the day where the clashes between Jesus and the world begin to come to a head. You see, on Palm Sunday long ago, there were two processions happening at the same time. One, the Roman governor of Judea, in this case, Pilate, who rode up to...
Sermon – Full To The Brim: Brazen Acts of Beauty ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
April 3, 2022 Deacon Heather Watch the worship service here. Watch the sermon starting here. Read the sermon coming soon.
Sermon- Full To The Brim: Prodigal Grace- Pastor Sarah Rohde
March 27, 2022 I remember my professor of New Testament in seminary warning us of the danger of titles when it comes to the parables of Jesus. As I’m sure you’ve heard before, parables were these short stories that Jesus told that were intended to disrupt human...
Sermon – We Are Worthy- Pastor Paisley Le Roy
March 20, 2022- This is my asparagus fern. She is very small. We bought her because she looked like a tiny Christmas tree, incredibly adorable. But one morning I woke up and there was dirt in my bed. I saw dirt in the hallway. Dirt in the living room. A clump of...
Sermon – Full To The Brim: Under God’s Wing ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
March 13, 2022 Deacon Heather Watch the worship service here. Watch the sermon starting here. Read the sermon coming soon.
Sermon- Full To The Brim: Even In The Desert- Pastor Sarah Rohde
March 6, 2022 I grew up in a family whose summer vacations almost always included a pop-up camper in tow and a national park as our destination. We loved getting away to the mountains and the ocean, we loved driving around campgrounds until we found the site that had...
Sermon – The Mountain Ascent ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
February 27, 2022 Deacon Heather Watch the worship service here. Watch the sermon starting here. Read the sermon coming soon.
Sermon – Waiting- Pastor Paisley Le Roy
February 20, 2022- Now, these last few months I have learned a lot about waiting.Once upon a time, I was a chaplain, then an intern and now a pastor. So I have accompanied many families as they wait: for a diagnosis, for the birth of a child, the death of a loved...
Sermon- Pushed to the Limit- Pastor Sarah Rohde
February 13, 2022 Well, one thing that we’ve said a few times over the past month, as we’ve been wintering together and mining the season of winter for what it has to teach us, one thing we’ve mentioned more than once is the way in which winter confronts us with our...
Sermon – Honoring Sadness ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
February 6, 2022 Deacon Heather Watch the worship service here. Watch the sermon starting here. Read the sermon coming soon.
Sermon- Holy Disillusionment – Pastor Sarah Rohde
January 30, 2022 In our gospel reading for today, Jesus is preaching in his hometown, so he’s surrounded by long-time friends and family. You can imagine how proud this crowd was to welcome him back home; they’re swept up by the marvel that Jesus, that cute little boy...
Sermon – Start By Reading – Guest Pastor Paul Rohde
January 23, 2022 Guest message from Pastor Paul Rohde from Augustana College and Pastor Sarah's father. You can watch the service here. You can watch the sermon starting here. You can read the full sermon coming soon.
Sermon- The Practice of Wintering- Pastor Sarah Rohde
January 16, 2022 Writer Katherine May offers us the practice of wintering. When she talks about wintering in her book, she speaks of it not just as a season of the natural world, but also as a season of life that we, at some time or another, will find ourselves in....
Sermon – Star Search – Guest Bishop Yehiel Curry
January 9, 2022 Bishop Curry speaks about the Christmas Star. You can watch the service here. You can watch the sermon starting here.
Sermon- Pastor Paisley Le Roy Installation – Pastor Sarah Rohde
December 5, 2021 Both of our readings for today speak of a God who, at various points in history, has sent messengers into the world. Malachi, who’s very name means messenger, is sent to the community of Israel, and he was sent to prepare the way of the Lord by...
Sermon – Advent “When The World Is Ending” ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
November 28, 2021 Welcome to Advent, the season of hope and anticipation, yes? When I was a child one of the signs I always looked forward to was my Advent calendar. Any of you have an Advent calendar? Every year about this time my brothers and sister and I were given...
Sermon- Preparing a Meal – Pastor Sarah Rohde
November 21, 2021 This conversation between Jesus and Peter in today’s gospel reading is really remarkable. Remember that not so long ago, Peter was the disciple who let Jesus down in a big way. Peter was the friend who, in the moment when that friendship was most...
