Because we are a community with a strong focus on study, service and community, we deeply appreciate challenging weekly sermons on these topics. (We call them “Promptings.”)
Below is a sampling of sermons offered in recent weeks by our talented and devoted preachers, Jessica Moore and Carl Hilton VanOsdall, as well as others who join us as guest preachers.
March 8, 2026
Kristabeth Atwood, M.Div.
“The Good News Is…….Together the Impossible Is Possible”
Sometimes the math just doesn’t work.
There are too many needs and not enough resources. There are too many problems pressing in at once and not enough solutions in sight. There are too many people who are hungry ~ hungry for food, hungry for safety, hungry for belonging ~ and not enough bread to go around.
March 1, 2026
Rev. Jessica Moore
“Wasteful Love”
Today it’s all about love – high risk, excessive, wasteful, God-centered love. Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong writes of this kind of love:
For one to abide in love is to abide in God; for one to give love away is to give God away. That is why when one sees a life that loves wastefully, it is said of that person, ‘God was in that life.’ …Love touches something external. When we enter love, we find ourselves caught up in its power. Love lifts us beyond our quest for survival. Love enables us to transcend our limits. Love frees us to give ourselves away. “
February 22, 2026
Rev. Carl Hilton VanOsdall
“Tell Me Something Good – So Good It Surprises Me”
Not long, at all, after Christmas we get an email from the Creative writers of A Sanctified Art
giving us just enough of a glimpse into Sanctified Art’s Lent / Easter theme
so that we can give a communal thumbs up or thumbs down on the material.
In keeping with our usual vote, the theme was a solid “thumbs up” this Lent / Easter:
Tell Me Something Good. “Yes! Something Good…”
Who doesn’t want to hear something good?
Even the most cynical, the solidly “glass is half empty” among us
want to hear something good, even if it DOES need to be
vetted, validated or deeply questioned first.
February 15, 2026
Rev. Jessica Moore
“Transformed Together”
Transfiguration Sunday!
The last Sunday before Lent, and while it’s not exactly Mardi Gras, I guess you could say that with today’s potluck we’re celebrating Fat Sunday.
Christ Church, Presbyterian 