by Dan Chase | Mar 30, 2025 | Sermons
March 30, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Psalm 36 Continuing the Lenten series on awe, Rev. Derek van Gulden turns to delight: the church’s commitment to the struggle against injustice, Jesus’s joy in sharing meals, and neighbors met over shovels in the...
by Dan Chase | Mar 16, 2025 | Sermons
March 16, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Psalm 19 On a baptism Sunday, Rev. Derek van Gulden keeps the sermon short: Psalm 19’s creation praises God without a word, and the baptismal promise to resist oppression and evil and to show love and justice sums up what...
by Dan Chase | Mar 9, 2025 | Sermons
March 9, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Psalm 107 Opening the Lenten series on awe with the word wonder, Rev. Derek van Gulden shows the congregation the chalices in the pastor’s office, among them a cracked one made for the 2007 ordination that sat unused for...
by Dan Chase | Mar 2, 2025 | Sermons
March 2, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Exodus 34:29-35; Luke 9:28-36 On Transfiguration Sunday, Rev. Derek van Gulden tells a story kept quiet for decades: at about twenty-five, during a hospital procedure, a cardiac arrest, a view of the room from the ceiling, a...
by Dan Chase | Feb 23, 2025 | Sermons
February 23, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Mark 2:1-12 Rev. Derek van Gulden returns to a favorite story, the paralyzed man lowered through the roof by his friends, and with the scholar Eunjoo Mary Kim sees the presence and power of God at work: Jesus not only heals...
by Dan Chase | Feb 16, 2025 | Sermons
February 16, 2025 · Rev. Dr. Liz Rice-Smith · Jeremiah 17:5-10; Luke 6:17-26 Rev. Dr. Liz Rice-Smith pairs Jeremiah’s image of those who trust in God as trees planted by the water with the blessings and woes of Luke’s Sermon on the Plain, then says goodbye...
by Dan Chase | Feb 2, 2025 | Sermons
February 2, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Genesis 18:1-8; Hebrews 13:1-6 Abraham’s welcome of three strangers, no questions asked, opens Rev. Derek van Gulden’s sermon on radical hospitality, from the feeding of the five thousand to the small things that...
by Dan Chase | Jan 19, 2025 | Sermons
January 19, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · 1 Corinthians 12:1-11; Luke 6:27-36 On the Sunday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Derek van Gulden reflects on the Letter from Birmingham Jail, its challenge to churches that stay hidden inside, and the beloved...
by Dan Chase | Jan 12, 2025 | Sermons
January 12, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Isaiah 43:1-7; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Luke’s account of Jesus’s baptism has no protest from John: Jesus simply waits and is baptized along with everyone else. Rev. Derek van Gulden finds hope in that, and in the...
by Dan Chase | Jan 5, 2025 | Sermons
January 5, 2025 · Rev. Derek van Gulden · Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12 On Epiphany Sunday, Rev. Derek van Gulden looks past the Magi’s gold, frankincense and myrrh to the gifts the animals of the stable gave the newborn Jesus: shelter, warmth, a place to rest...
