by Dan Chase | Oct 12, 2025 | Sermons
October 12, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Psalm 24; Revelation 22:1-3 On Indigenous Peoples’ Sunday, Rev. Derek van Gulden tells of the Pawtucket people who lived on Cape Ann, the Doctrine of Discovery that was used to take their land, and...
by Dan Chase | Oct 5, 2025 | Sermons
October 5, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · 1 Corinthians 12:12-27; Psalm 133:1; John 17:21-23 On World Communion Sunday, Rev. Derek van Gulden remembers a physician in El Salvador who took communion every day through months of earthquake aftershocks, and finds three...
by Dan Chase | Sep 28, 2025 | Sermons
September 28, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Genesis 1:24-31; Psalm 148; Matthew 6:25-29 On Blessing of the Animals Sunday, Rev. Derek van Gulden plays a chickadee’s call and asks whether we have the humility to learn from other creatures: birds that bring...
by Dan Chase | Sep 21, 2025 | Sermons
September 21, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Genesis 18:1-5; Mark 16:14-15 Opening a fall series on creation justice, Rev. Derek van Gulden starts with humanity’s call to care for creation and the storms already arriving: rising seas, from Bearskin Neck to a...
by Dan Chase | Sep 14, 2025 | Sermons
September 14, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Numbers 6:22-27; Philippians 4:4-9; John 14:27-31 The peace of God that passes all understanding is the scripture people ask Rev. Derek van Gulden for most, and two members who found it near the end of their lives taught...
by Dan Chase | Sep 7, 2025 | Sermons
September 7, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · John 4:1-27 Rev. Derek van Gulden calls the Samaritan woman at the well one of his favorite people in scripture: an outcast to whom Jesus first says plainly who he is, and who brings her whole town to meet him. A...
by Dan Chase | Aug 31, 2025 | Sermons
August 31, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Hebrews 13:5-8,15-16; Luke 14:1, 7-14 When you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind, and you will be blessed. Rev. Derek van Gulden tells of the first scripture he ever understood: a 1976...
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...
