by Dan Chase | Jan 4, 2026 | Sermons
January 4, 2026 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12 On Epiphany, Rev. Derek van Gulden wonders what the Magi’s gold, frankincense and myrrh might mean for us now, and members of the congregation step forward as stargazers and a shepherd to...
by Dan Chase | Dec 28, 2025 | Sermons
December 28, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Luke 2:21-36 A young farmer in a snowed-in Vermont church once taught Rev. Derek van Gulden to keep it short, and this sermon does. Simeon and Anna join Mary and Joseph, the shepherds and the Magi in a line of unlikely...
by Dan Chase | Dec 24, 2025 | Sermons
December 24, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Isaiah 11:1-3, 6-9; Luke 2:1-19 In the Christmas Eve homily, Rev. Derek van Gulden hands the story to Malachi, cousin of Joseph, whose house in Bethlehem was so full of relatives that the only room left was downstairs with...
by Dan Chase | Dec 21, 2025 | Sermons
December 21, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Isaiah 7:10-16; Matthew 1:18-25 On the last Sunday of Advent, Rev. Derek van Gulden turns to Joseph, who could have done what custom demanded and instead wrapped his arms around Mary and the child. Their two yeses made love...
by Dan Chase | Dec 14, 2025 | Sermons
December 14, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Luke 1:26-56 On the Advent Sunday of Joy, Rev. Derek van Gulden takes Mary down off the pedestal: a poor teenager in an occupied land who says yes anyway, and whose Magnificat is a protest song about scattering the proud and...
by Dan Chase | Dec 7, 2025 | Sermons
December 7, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Luke 1:5-25 Jesus was born into a world where those who spoke up disappeared and a few had everything. Rev. Derek van Gulden turns to Zechariah, struck silent until his son John was born, who still found ways to do what he...
by Dan Chase | Nov 30, 2025 | Sermons
November 30, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Lamentations 3:46-57; Luke 2:1-5 On the first Sunday of Advent, Rev. Derek van Gulden describes the world Jesus was born into, centuries of silence and occupation under Caesar and Herod, and asks the congregation to name...
by Dan Chase | Nov 23, 2025 | Sermons
November 23, 2025 · Rev. Mike Duda · Isaiah 58:6-9; Luke 16:19-31 Thanksgiving is about sharing a meal, and so was much of Jesus’ ministry, from the agape feasts of the first Christians to the feeding of the five thousand. Rev. Mike Duda reads the parable of the...
by Dan Chase | Nov 16, 2025 | Sermons
November 16, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Zechariah 8:9-16; James 1:22-25; Mark 12:41-44 In a stewardship sermon, Rev. Derek van Gulden takes James at his word (quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger, and doers of the word, not only hearers) and walks through...
by Dan Chase | Nov 9, 2025 | Sermons
November 9, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Psalm 23; John 10:7-10 Rev. Derek van Gulden sets a plastic Jesus amid a beach’s worth of plastic and calls our dependence on it a modern golden calf, harming the sea, the poorest neighborhoods and perhaps even the...
