Pr. Cheryl Walenta Gorvie Sermon - blog

You all get it. That’s why you’re here. It’s the Sunday after Easter, and typically, everyone put so much energy into celebrating Holy...

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! This is our holy story of resurrection. We’ve been telling this story during all of...

It is finished. The marathon runner collapses across the finish line, knees buckling beneath the weary weight of many miles. But there...

Jesus gives us what we need, and then a little bit more. On Maundy Thursday, this is when we remember that Jesus celebrated the Last...

There’s a lot of love in this story about death and life. In much of John’s Gospel, Jesus can speak in a way that’s rather aloof, as if...

It’s kinda sad that humans are so skilled at asking all the wrong questions. The story in John’s Gospel of the man born blind is a...

This past Wednesday was International Women’s Day, a time to celebrate women around the world as they advocate and agitate and legislate...

There is a science to awe. Not “aw” as in “aw shucks” or “aw that’s too bad,” but awe, as in wonder or reverence or admiration or...

When Jesus was baptized, publicly affirmed by the voice of God, you might think that would be a kind of high point that would be a...

Perhaps you have noticed the questions—during Lent, every week when we gather for worship on Sundays and on Wednesdays, there will be a...

Perhaps you have noticed some interesting new words in the liturgy we’re using today, the words we use for worship. Most of these words...

WHAT ARE THE CHILDREN DOING? Today we heard a strange word in the reading from the Old Testament. The prophet Isaiah said that when you...

A couple of weeks ago, our local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, had a feature article with this title: “Revived for New...

Repent, Jesus says, and then he starts organizing. The reign of heaven is not a rhetorical device, not an imaginary place...

Welcome back after the holidays! It’s a new year, we celebrated in some way, maybe gathering with loved ones, enjoying favorite...

Because the light we carry here in worship is a symbol for us of the light of Christ that shines in our souls. And that’s what we will carr

“Among those born of women,” Jesus says, as if that doesn’t include every single human person who has ever lived. “Among those born of...

When John the Baptizer appears in the wilderness, baptizing for the repentance of sins, he is preparing the way of the Lord. He’s not...

What are the children doing? Today I brought with me some ways to measure time. · Sand timer—if this was bigger, it might be...

Water is powerful, but it’s everywhere, so it’s easy to take water for granted. Which sounds to me kinda like Jesus...