by Dan Chase | Aug 24, 2025 | Sermons
August 24, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Isaiah 58:9b-14; Luke 13:10-17 Sabbath isn’t only rest, Rev. Derek van Gulden says: it’s delight, and a different kind of work, the liberating work Jesus did when he healed a woman bent over for eighteen years. A...
by Dan Chase | Aug 17, 2025 | Sermons
August 17, 2025 · Rev. Gracie Paterson · Jeremiah 23:23-29; Luke 12:49-56 Jesus says he came to bring fire and division, hard words in a world already divided and burning. Rev. Gracie Paterson places them in the line of prophets like Jeremiah, who refused to be a...
by Dan Chase | Aug 10, 2025 | Sermons
August 10, 2025 · Rev. Gracie Paterson · Genesis 15:1-6; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Rev. Gracie Paterson reads God’s promise to Abram of descendants as many as the stars alongside Hebrews’ roll call of the faithful, and finds three kinds of star power in our...
by Dan Chase | Aug 3, 2025 | Sermons
August 3, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Luke 12:13-21; Colossians 3:1-11 Jesus’ parable of the rich man who builds bigger barns, and Mary’s song of the hungry filled and the rich sent away empty, speak loudly in a time of hunger at home and in Gaza. The...
by Dan Chase | Jul 27, 2025 | Sermons
July 27, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Luke 11:1-13 Prayer is a conversation with God, says Rev. Derek van Gulden, but sometimes the words won’t come. Years ago in Kenya, a priest named Simon sent him out to help with the maize harvest instead; this spring,...
by Dan Chase | Jul 20, 2025 | Sermons
July 20, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Genesis 18:1-10a; Luke 10:38-42 Martha and Mary are often pitted against each other, but Rev. Derek van Gulden remembers a woman named Sylvia at the Floating Bridge Church in Vermont, coaxed out of the kitchen by a...
by Dan Chase | Jul 13, 2025 | Sermons
July 13, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Deuteronomy 30:9-14; Luke 10:25-37 The Good Samaritan is so familiar we can miss it: the lawyer can’t even bring himself to say ‘the Samaritan.’ Rev. Derek van Gulden asks who the Samaritan would be in...
by Dan Chase | Jul 6, 2025 | Sermons
July 6, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Jesus sends out the seventy with a blueprint: travel light, go in pairs, bless whoever welcomes you. Rev. Derek van Gulden remembers medical mission trips where leaving the extra stuff behind freed the team to...
by Dan Chase | Jun 29, 2025 | Sermons
June 29, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Isaiah 6:1-13; Luke 5:4-11 On Pride Sunday, Rev. Derek van Gulden asks whether flags and parades are enough, and follows Simon out into deep water, where the nets fill only after an exhausting night. Drawing on his own...
by Dan Chase | Jun 22, 2025 | Sermons
June 22, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Colossians 3:12-16 On a Sunday celebrating music, Rev. Derek van Gulden shares Bonhoeffer’s words on music bringing us back from confusion to joy, invites the congregation to name the hymns that move them, and tells of a...
