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: Hide It Under a Bushel? No!
November 19, 2017 Matthew 25:14-30 Hide it under a bushel? No! I’m gonna let it shine! Hide it under a bushel? No! I'm gonna let it shine! Hide it under a bushel? No! I'm gonna let it shine! Let it shine! Let it shine! Let it shine! That’s one of my favorite verses of “This…
Sermon: Is There Forgiveness?
November 12, 2017: Loyalty Sunday Matthew 25:1-13 Is there forgiveness? That’s the inescapable question for those reading this passage about the wise and foolish bridesmaids. Is there forgiveness? Because it seems so harsh. So unforgiving. So… final. Granted, they had missed their chance. The custom in those days was for the bridesmaids to wait with…
Sermon: Blessed
October 29, 2017: All Saints Sunday Matthew 5:1-12 I’ve had a set of teary moments this week. The first came on Tuesday, when Momi gave me a couple of envelopes which people had left to sponsor me in the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser (see news coverage here). I was so moved by…
Sermon: All You’ve Got to Do is Be Worth Imitating
October 22, 2017 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 I can’t help but wonder whether I would have liked the Apostle Paul. He was the champion for including the unincludeable. He was the guy who made the great turn-around. Though he’d once actively tried to squelch the spreading message of God’s Messiah in Jesus, he turned that same…
Sermon: Safety
October 15, 2017 Exodus 32:1-14 Children’s Sabbath I think most of us recognize the difference between being instructed in how to do something on the one hand, and having the experience of doing it on the other. Cooking, cleaning, carpentry, driving, singing, playing an instrument, writing, plumbing, weeding, gardening – we get better at these…
Sermon: Deceptively Simple
October 8, 2017 Exodus 20:1-20 Access Sunday In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, a fictionalized look at the rash of public arrests, trials, and executions for witchcraft which occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 and 1693, a visiting minister asks the main character, John Proctor, to name the Ten Commandments. He does pretty well, getting…
Sermon: Are You Listening to This, God?
October 1, 2017 Exodus 17:1-7 World Communion Sunday Neighbors in Need Offering The people of Israel were in a desperate situation. Again. They had escaped from slavery in Egypt, a desperate situation, through a series of miracles: the plagues which eventually forced Pharaoh to release them. Pharaoh's army pursued them, another desperate situation, until the…
Sermon: Bright as Crystal
September 24, 2017 Revelation 22:1-5 Season of Creation: River Sunday We come to the close of our month-long Season of Creation today with River Sunday. I have to admit that I find this a strange Biblical text for River Sunday – at least it has a river in it. I think on Forest Sunday we…
Sermon: Essentials and Opinions
September 17, 2017 Romans 14:1-12 Just Peace Sunday There’s a tempting way to describe the history of the Christian Church, and it goes like this: In the beginning, there was Jesus, and Jesus taught his disciples the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And there was morning, and there was evening, and…
Sermon: Fly on the Wings of the Morning
September 10, 2017 Psalm 139:7-12 Season of Creation: Land Sunday Many years ago, I proved how much I love my son. We were on vacation in Baltimore, Maryland, which was the setting for the UCC’s General Synod in July (and that has nothing to do with my story). Baltimore is home to one of the…
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