041821 Easter 3  The sermon begins at minute 11:10 of the video Psalm 4; Acts 3:12-19; Luke 24:36-48   When I first read today’s Scriptures, they struck me as downers. Aren’t we supposed to be celebrating Christ’s resurrection? Why do these passages focus on rejection, murder, ignorance, suffering, and longing for better times? Then I…

  Guest sermon by Sam Pillsbury. The sermon begins at minute 17:40 of the video John 20:19-31   Introduction Sometimes the most extraordinary and wonderful things appear right in front of us, present to sight and sound, smell and touch – and still we miss them. We do not recognize what is right in front of…

040421  The sermon starts at minute 22:50 in the video Mark 16:1-8   How appropriate that this year’s Gospel is Mark, which ends so ambiguously and inconclusively. While the other Gospels end on hopeful notes of Jesus meeting his female and male disciples, and going to Galilee, here there is no meeting, and no going…