Pr. Cheryl Walenta Gorvie Sermon - blog

It’s not easy living in the real world, but this is the only world where we find Jesus, who refused to let us imagine that peace is beyond our reach, or that a better world is something too far away to bother with. Jesus is rooted in reality: do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth, he says, I have not come to bring peace but a sword. Oof, that sounds opposite of what Jesus is talking about right? Isn’t Jesus all about peace? Of course he is. But he c

Be reconciled. Maybe you’ve also heard that theme from this section of Second Corinthians: “if anyone is in Christ, there is a new...

Sometimes we talk about Jesus as if he was a theological construct or a dispassionate miracle worker who roamed the earth for a time and...

“Transfiguration” is a strange word, and we only use it once a year: on this Sunday at the end of the season after Epiphany. Epiphany is...

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...