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...
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...
