by Dan Chase | Nov 2, 2025 | Sermons
November 2, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Psalm 146; Hebrews 12:1-3; Matthew 22:34-40 On All Saints Sunday, Rev. Derek van Gulden asks who the saints in your life have been, known and unknown, still here or gone before, and offers a meditation on the great cloud of...
by Dan Chase | Oct 26, 2025 | Sermons
October 26, 2025 · Micah 6:8 A member of the congregation, a retired attorney and longtime advocate for Palestinian rights, tells the stories of three students detained this year over their advocacy, and of the court rulings that released them on First Amendment...
by Dan Chase | Oct 19, 2025 | Sermons
October 19, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Psalm 104:10-13; Isaiah 43:16-21 In the creation justice series, Rev. Derek van Gulden turns to water: the waters of Genesis that all life comes from, a dry year of water bans and brown maples, and a six-kilometer walk for...
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...
