The Rev. George Adamik offers a different take on Jesus’s parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32).
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Sermons (Page 37)
The Rev. Carr Holland meditates on tragedy and Jesus’s parable of the fig tree in Luke 13:1-9: “Life can be so fragile, and we don’t notice it most of the time. Jesus indicates life’s fragility and demands an urgency on our part. That urgency shows that life itself has carved out opportunity for us to seize hold God’s graciousness, to yield to it, and to grow.”
Drew Bradley and Izzie Hirschy discuss their experience as youth participating in Appalachia Service Project (ASP).
The Rev. George Adamik reflects on this season of Lent (Deuteronomy 26:1-11): “I invite you to consider how to change the rhythm of our lives, to open ourselves to who God is calling us to be. Lent can be that wonderful opportunity. It begins at baptism. It begins with remembering we’ve walked into a community. We’re not doing this alone.”
On Ash Wednesday, the Rev. George Adamik reflects on baptism as Lent begins: “What do we need to do to get back to the waters of baptism? How do we get out of our regular rhythm and do something different, to be about something different?”
The Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista reflects on Luke 9:28-36 (The Transfiguration): “What we call productivity is in reality the noise we make to prove to people that we are worthwhile… I hope that we will make room for being, just being, in a culture obsessed with busyness. I hope that—come what may—Christ may visit us on a lone mountain top and that he may walk down with us, wherever the road may lead.”
The Rev. George Adamik recounts a trip to the grocery store and discusses the radical message of Luke 6:27-38: “We’ve fallen into a time when it’s difficult to be open to another viewpoint. We defend our point rather than trying to open ourselves to relationship, to understanding the other viewpoint… The reason I bring this up is to lead us to the gospel we just read. It may be difficult to hear from the point where we view things… The ministry of Jesus was predominately to those on the margins, to those on the periphery of culture, to the poor, to the oppressed, to the enslaved, to those who had no hope…”
The Rev. Carr Holland meditates on the Beatitudes (Luke 6:17-26), vulnerability, and living a meaningful life: “At Yale, there is currently a course for which there are only 60 slots annually but about 250 applicants. It came about because of a realization in the divinity school that a key question of liberal arts education was missing: what makes for a meaningful life?”
The Rev. Javier Almendárez-Bautista discusses Luke 5:1-11, where Simon, James, and John become “fishers of men.”
The Rev. George Adamik reflects on Jesus’s controversial return to his hometown in Luke 4:21-30.