There’s a story of a minister who as a young girl used to attend a church in which there was a very large stained glass window at the front divided into two panes. The left hand pane pictured Jesus kneeling in the Garden of Gethsemane, Read more →
May 9, 2021 – “A LOVE THAT IS OUT OF THIS WORLD”
God is love. For many that sums up the core of the Christian faith. God is love, so we should love God and we should love one another. Jesus doesn’t make many explicit commands in the Bible, but he makes one in our reading Read more →
May 2, 2021 – “ON THE WILDERNESS ROAD”
Today’s reading from scripture involves one of the leaders of the early church, a man named Philip, and his encounter with an Ethiopian eunuch. In order to get the full context of what’s going on, we need to backtrack a couple of Read more →
April 25, 2021 – ” A RESURRECTION HOSPITALITY”
Some years ago, I spent part of my summer in China teaching English. I attended an evening worship service in a church in the city of Fuzhou. In one of the rooms of that church was a large picture on the wall of Jesus, with long Read more →
April 18, 2021 – “DISBELIEVING IN JOY”
The text for this morning comes from the gospel according to Luke. Luke records that one of Jesus’ first resurrection appearances was to two of his followers on their way to Emmaus on that first Easter day. Jesus walked along with a Read more →
April 11, 2021 – “JESUS DOESN’T KNOCK”
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jewish authorities, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” I Read more →
April 4, 2021 – “AN UNFINISHED STORY”
It’s Easter Sunday and it’s our second consecutive Easter Sunday that we’ve been unable to meet in person for worship and fellowship. I know it’s disappointing, no one is more disappointed than me. I look forward to Easter every year, Read more →
April 2, 2021 – “GOOD NEWS IN THE WORST PLACES”
Why do we gather in worship this morning? Why have a Good Friday service when we know that Easter is only three days away? Why go through the motions of being sad when we know that the story doesn’t end this way, that soon Read more →
April 1, 2021 – “MAUNDY THURSDAY IS FOR FOOLS”
Do you remember the story of the unnamed woman who took a jar of perfume and anointed Jesus’ head with it? John’s gospel says it was Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus and that she poured the perfume on Jesus’ feet Read more →
March 28, 2021 – “LENT: A SEASON OF RISK – RISKING TEMPTATION”
Our worship services are prerecorded and then posted online Watch on YouTube. “RISKING TEMPTATION”The Rev. Victor KimMark 14:32-50(03-28-21) Lent 6 Today is what is traditionally known as Palm Sunday. And as I said in the … Read More