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- Sermon: Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023
- Sermon: Lent 5: March 26, 2023
- Sermon: Lent 4: March 19, 2023
- Sermon: Lent 3: March 12, 2023
- Sermon: Lent 2: March 5, 2023
- Sermon: Lent 1: February 26, 2023
- Sermon: Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2023
- Sermon: February 19, 2023
- Sermon: February 12, 2023
- Sermon: February 5, 2023
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Sermon: Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023
Posted on April 3, 2023 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanIt is approximately 30 CE, though we wouldn’t call it that because we keep a different calendar. And who am I? I am Hannah. I am the wife of a blacksmith. We live just outside of the city of Jerusalem. I am fortunate. I have reached the age of 50....
Sermon: Lent 5: March 26, 2023
Posted on March 27, 2023 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanYou will not find many Bible study groups doing a study of the Book of Ezekiel. The book is difficult and disturbing. The prophet acts in bizarre ways, and God is often cold and calculating. God commands Ezekiel to do strange things. The book of Ezekiel uses imagery and theological...
Sermon: Lent 4: March 19, 2023
Posted on March 20, 2023 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanA man who was born blind in a world in which there is little space for him, sits day by day in the public square begging for others’ leftovers so that he can survive. When others see him all they can see is his unseeing eyes and they feel afraid,...
Sermon: Lent 3: March 12, 2023
Posted on March 12, 2023 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanThe Gospel of John is full of symbolic imagery, the contrast between darkness and light being perhaps the most prominent image of all. Jesus is the light. Those who follow him live in the light. Those opposed to him live in darkness. We saw this in our Gospel reading from...
Sermon: Lent 2: March 5, 2023
Posted on March 5, 2023 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanSo, John 3:16. What do you think of when you hear those words? I think of football games with people holding up big signs that can be picked up by the tv camera. I think of judgment. It makes me roll my eyes and squirm. “For God so loved the...
Sermon: Lent 1: February 26, 2023
Posted on February 26, 2023 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanWhy do we give things up or take things on during the season of Lent? It is certainly not something that Jesus’ first followers did. There is some evidence that early Christians fasted forty hours between Good Friday and Easter, but the custom of spending forty days in prayer and...
Sermon: Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Posted on February 23, 2023 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah Rohman“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” When I hear these words every Ash Wednesday I think about mortality and death. I think about my own death. I think about the death of those I love. And I feel more than a little uncomfortable. I am...
Sermon: February 19, 2023
Posted on February 23, 2023 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanThis morning I want to focus on Peter, one of the main characters in our Gospel reading for today. Peter appears frequently throughout the Gospel of Matthew. Some of his appearances are humorous and some are tragic, but they are always human. He is full of all the good and...
Sermon: February 12, 2023
Posted on February 16, 2023 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanOur Gospel passage for this week is tough. It seems to be verse after verse of raising the bar. Don’t just keep yourself from killing other people, don’t even get angry with them. Don’t just keep yourself from committing adultery, don’t even allow yourself to look at another person with...
Sermon: February 5, 2023
Posted on February 7, 2023 | Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Suzannah RohmanYou are the salt of the earth. . . You are the light of the world. I want you to listen to these words from Jesus very closely. They are so familiar to us that it is easy to miss the profound message in them. You are the salt of...