Sermons

Matthew 4:17-25 Even as the smells of Christmas still linger–the special baking, the pine boughs, the wintergreen scented candle, the cinnamon spiced cider–we catch a whiff of something different. Something else is wafting in, on a breeze from the Sea of Galilee. Do you smell it? Something smells a bit…fishy! And there is

Luke 1:26-56 Part 1: The Visitation  (Shirley Redekop) In place of a traditional sermon this morning, we will, as Mary, mother of Jesus did, ponder what was told to her by the angel Gabriel, and Mary’s reaction to this news. In the spring of 2014 and again in 2024 Fred and I attended

Matthew 1:18-25 Introduction When I was teaching, parent/teacher interviews always made me a bit nervous. Most of the time, these were good conversations–a way to communicate with parents about how their children were doing, and what kinds of things we could do to support their learning. But every once in a while something