Sermon Text: Matthew 18: 21-35 I’ll begin today with two stories of accidents. The first occurred when I was four years old.  I was playing bocce ball in the yard with sister, who was eleven at the time.  In bocce ball you throw a little target ball called a jack, and you try to bowl…

Sermon text: Matthew 18: 15-20 This week I had a few conversations about how life feels right now, mainly that life feels disjointed, that the disruptions in our lives are making us feel disconnected.  I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about if life will go back to normal, if the church will ever go…

Sermon text: Exodus 3: 1-15 When’s the last time you lit a fire?  I’m not talking about flipping the switch on your Weber Grill or turning on the gas fireplace, but a real, honest to God fire. I usually get my fire fix over the summer at Camp Sequanota during cookouts.  As Pastor Scott Custead…

Sermon text: Matthew 16: 13-20 Israel is full of wonderful sites.  One of the most intriguing is in the far north, called Banias, and it is the location for this week’s Gospel lesson at Caesarea Philippi.  At Banias there is a 100-foot wall of rock that rises from the earth.  It is 500 feet across. …