Giving from Abundance, Living the Love of Jesus

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...

Real Faith in a Synthetic World: Plastic Jesus

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...

For Everyday Saints

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...

Water, Holy Water

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...

When We See God

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...

Connecting with Creation through Communion

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...