Sermons
Each week, we post Sunday’s sermon by Rev. Eric Anderson. If you can’t join us on Sunday morning, try following #3tweetsermon on Twitter.
Sermon: Never Since
October 25, 2020Twenty-first Sunday after PentecostAll Saints Sunday at Church of the Holy Cross UCC Deuteronomy 34:1-12Matthew 22:34-46 by Eric Anderson They were great pals. Best buddies. BFFs – that’s Best Friends Forever for those who don’t hear teenagers very often. They didn’t actually use those words, since they were not human teenagers or human…
Sermon: Faces
October 18, 2020Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 33:12-23Matthew 22:15-22 by Eric Anderson One of the teens had been spending a lot of time on Twitter, and in particular, had been attentively following the posts of Unvirtuous Abbey. Therefore, he knew what the face of God looks like. The other teen, his sister, had been spending…
Sermon: Pollyanna
October 11, 2020Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Philippians 4:1-9 by Eric Anderson On the mountainside lived a pessimistic pueo. Most pueo are, I think, basically optimistic. They tend to have a sunny view of life, in contrast to some of their owl cousins elsewhere in the world, who tend to have a more moonlit view of…
Sermon: Yes, I Remember
October 4, 2020Eighteenth Sunday after PentecostWorld Communion Sunday Exodus 20:1-20 by Eric Anderson It doesn’t happen often among the kolea. They’re generally pretty mellow birds. They don’t seem to mind things very much – even rain in Hilo or, to tell the truth, rain on the Alaskan coast. They don’t chase other birds away for…
Sermon: Who is First?
September 27, 2020Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Ezekiel 17:1-7Matthew 21:23-32 by Eric Anderson The ‘apapane mother was near frantic. The ‘apapane father’s face was so red – well, okay, an ‘apapane’s face is always red. Underneath the feathers, though, you know both of them were flushed and frustrated. Why all this parental exasperation? The chicks. The…
Sermon: Not Fair
September 20, 2020Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Jonah 3:10-4:11Matthew 20:1-16 by Eric Anderson Year after year, they returned, the honu did. Year after year, they returned to the same beach, or at least the females did. They returned to haul themselves up around the rocks, to dig in the sand with their flippers, to lay their…
Sermon: Miracle Work
September 13, 2020Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 14:19-31Exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21 by Eric Anderson The kolea was not content, and it was not a minor problem. It may also come as something of a relief to you that it was not a myna problem, either, because that means it’s the last time in this story that…
Sermon: Like a Tax Collector
September 6, 2020Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Romans 13:8-14Matthew 18:15-20 by Eric Anderson The kolea stood and watched the Pacific waves roll up on the Alaskan coastline. It had been a good summer, at least by kolea standards. There had been plenty of food, and his feathers had kept him warm when it rained. There hadn’t…
Sermon: Weeping
August 16, 2020Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 45:1-15 by Eric Anderson The koa’e kea had the reputation of being a crybaby, or rather, since he was a bird and not a person, a cry chick. All koa’e kea weep reasonably often, because they dive for food into salt water and the tears help clear the…
Sermon: In the Wind
August 9, 2020Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 14:22-33 by Eric Anderson The young myna was a happy singer. She was also an unhappy singer. That sounds like a contradiction, and certainly it is. Let me explain. She loved to sing, and she had quite an adaptable voice to do it. She could sing high notes,…
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