Sermons

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.

February 1, 2026

Rev. Carl Hilton VanOsdall

“What If We Lived By These?”

As a preacher, I can’t help but wonder, “Did Jesus pull an all-nighter,
When he was coming up with this…the opening segment,
We could call it, of the ‘Sermon on the Mount?’”

January 25, 2025

Kristabeth Atwood, M.Div.

“The Courage to Begin Where You Are”

The world has been a lot. Most of us don’t need that explained. We feel it in our bodies before we can put words to it… a low hum of urgency, fatigue, grief, and concern that runs beneath our days. Political division. Climate anxiety. People – children – being ripped from their homes. So much suffering that it’s hard to know where to focus our attention…or whether what we’re doing really matters.

January 11, 2026

Rev. Carl Hilton VanOsdall

“The Wedding that Changed Everything”

If I were to start the sentence, “On the third day,” a number of us, anyway would respond, “he rose again from the dead,”
In keeping with the engrained confessional statement
we find in the Apostle’s Creed.

January 4, 2026

Rev. Jessica Moore

“Fear Doesn’t Stop Us”

The birth narrative in Matthew is unique.  Only Luke and Matthew of the four gospels have birth narratives, and they are significantly different from each other.  Each birth narrative illustrates theological themes for its Gospel.