God is the Maker and Preserver of all things–one God in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

In revealing himself to us, God relates to us as a loving Father who has adopted us as his sons.  God’s love is manifest fully in the life, death and resurrection of his Son, for us, making us co-heirs with him in all things. And God’s love for us is received by the Holy Spirit, through whom we experience God’s love and are assured that we are his children.

Does life matter? Do I matter? The birth of Christ on Christmas invites us to look in the manger and to see the God who loves us and made us and who says to us–yes.

Bp. John Guernsey shares about the remarkable diversity of the early church in Philippi. Through Paul in Acts 16, the gospel reaches rich and poor, slave and free, Jew and Gentile.

On Missions Sunday, Dean Miller shares about the wide love of Jesus. Able to open his arms to welcome in the despised outcast Zacchaeus–who responded in faith and repentant transformation. This Jesus invites all of us in, regardless of how we think we fit in. And it calls all of us to go out in the name of the same Jesus to look for every outcast hiding in the trees.

Pentecost 2015

Numbers 11, Acts 2, John 20

Bp. John Guernsey

May 24, 2015

Life & Death & Jesus

Romans 8 | Johnny Kurcina

April 15, 2012

(Psalm 32) Every culture has a vision of the good life. What does it mean to live the good life? As we see in Psalm 32, the experience of the forgiveness of sins is essential to the good life.

(Mark 10:13-16) Jesus welcomed children that parents brought to him for Jesus to bless–even though the disciples thought it was a disturbance that should be dismissed.

How do we hinder children now? Even in the church we fail to take young people seriously–understanding their problems and incorporating them into the body of Christ. Kids of all ages need people who will talk to them, embrace them and engage them for life.

(Luke 2:22-35)

As Simeon waits for the salvation of the Lord and then rejoices in the birth of Jesus Christ–the Messiah, so do we all long for the promises of God to be fulfilled in the form of his presence with us.

(Luke 2:1-20) What does it tell us about God that he became a baby on Christmas?

(Sermon preached on Christmas Eve 2011)