by Dan Chase | Jun 15, 2025 | Sermons
June 15, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; John 16:12-15 On Trinity Sunday, Rev. Derek van Gulden finds a new way into a hard doctrine through Sophia, the Wisdom who dances with delight in Proverbs, and through the weathered sign out front: show...
by Dan Chase | Jun 8, 2025 | Sermons
June 8, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Acts 2:1-21; John 14:8-17 On Pentecost, everyone hears the good news in their own language. Rev. Derek van Gulden remembers an interpreter who heard Mass in her native Spanish for the first time in twenty years, and asks whether...
by Dan Chase | Jun 1, 2025 | Sermons
June 1, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Ephesians 1:15-23; Luke 24:44-53 In Luke’s Ascension story, Jesus opens the disciples’ minds to the scriptures and sends them out. Rev. Derek van Gulden remembers a doctor in El Salvador, calm through earthquakes and...
by Dan Chase | May 25, 2025 | Sermons
May 25, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Revelation 22:1-5; John 5:1-9 Jesus asks a man who has waited thirty-eight years by the healing pool whether he wants to be well, then simply tells him to pick up his mat and walk. Rev. Derek van Gulden remembers shipmates...
by Dan Chase | May 11, 2025 | Sermons
May 11, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Proverbs 3:13-20; John 21:1-14 On Mother’s Day, Rev. Derek van Gulden remembers a seminary assignment to draw God (the result had long curly hair) and a childhood morning when a friend’s grandmother told the story of...
by Dan Chase | May 4, 2025 | Sermons
May 4, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Luke 24:13-35 On a communion Sunday, Rev. Derek van Gulden keeps it brief: Luke’s road to Emmaus says it all, and the first communion he took at eighteen changed something he is still figuring out. Pay attention to that...
by Dan Chase | Apr 27, 2025 | Sermons
April 27, 2025 · Joe Jencks · Psalm 150; John 20:19-31 Singer-songwriter Joe Jencks, a guest that morning with Deidre McCalla, reads Thomas not as a man of weak faith but of a broken heart, afraid to hope after Jesus’s execution, and follows the tradition that...
by Dan Chase | Apr 20, 2025 | Sermons
April 20, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Isaiah 25:6-9; John 20:1-18 On Easter morning, Rev. Derek van Gulden imagines the shattered hope of Jesus’s followers after the crucifixion, then follows Mary Magdalene to the empty tomb, where she knows the risen Jesus...
by Dan Chase | Apr 13, 2025 | Sermons
April 13, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Psalm 118; Luke 19:29-40 With the prepared sermon lost to a computer crash, Rev. Derek van Gulden preaches Palm Sunday from the pulpit, setting Pilate’s military parade into Jerusalem beside Jesus on a young donkey,...
by Dan Chase | Apr 6, 2025 | Sermons
April 6, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Psalm 149; Luke 6:27-31 Reading Jesus’s call to love our enemies and treat others as we would be treated, Rev. Derek van Gulden takes up the Lenten word connection: the livestreams and Zoom gatherings born in the 2020...
