Sermon Text: Genesis 32: 22-31 Tara’s father lie dying in a bed at the hospice house and her world coming apart at the seams.  Her father had been in very good health, he was in his late 80s, but then the cancer suddenly showed up in his body.  She, her mother, the doctors, they tried…

Sermon Text: Genesis 29: 15-28 One of the things I’ve been missing most, especially during our in-person worship, is all the singing.  You know, church is one of the few remaining places where we sing in public.  It was here, in these walls, along with a healthy dose of belting out tunes with the radio,…

Sermon text: Genesis 28: 10-19a I want to take you back eight years to the summer of 2012.  I had just completed seminary, which was a good thing, but my situation was somewhat undesirable.  First, the congregation the bishop matched me with was not fully prepared to take on a new pastor, and I decided…

Sermon Text: Genesis 25: 19-34 Today I will begin something I’ve never done in my 8 years of ordained ministry.  We will embark on a four weeklong sermon series and it will focus on our Old Testament lessons as they follow the story of Jacob.  Jacob is a very crucial person in the Old Testament. …