The theme of this year’s Lenten midweek prayer is “Holy Conversations with Jesus.” The Sunday lectionary for Lent reveals Jesus in conversation with friends, foreigners, and even adversaries. In tonight’s reading from John, Jesus encounters a man who was blind from birth. Born without sight the nameless man became first a topic of conversation, later […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 15, 2026, Fourth Sunday in Lent
Today’s gospel contains the story of a man born blind who was healed by Jesus. He said, “One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” Jesus declares about himself, “I am the light of the world,” opening us to light in the world’s darkest valleys, light that no darkness can […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 11, 2026, Third Lent Midweek Service of Word and Prayer
The theme of this year’s Lenten midweek prayer is “Holy Conversations with Jesus.” The Sunday lectionary for Lent reveals Jesus in conversation with friends, foreigners, and even adversaries. In tonight’s reading from John, Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at the well and offers her “living water.” Changed by her conversation with him, she left her […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 8, 2026, Third Sunday in Lent
Jesus promises the woman at the well the gift of an internal spring within her, “gushing up to eternal life”. When presented with this gift she says, “Sir, give me this water so I may never be thirsty…” Jesus promises us through life challenges that we can trust in the inward dwelling of the Spirit […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 4, 2026, 2nd Lent Midweek Service of Prayer
The theme of this year’s Lenten midweek prayer is “Holy Conversations with Jesus.” The Sunday lectionary for Lent reveals Jesus in conversation with both friends and adversaries. In tonight’s reading from John, Nicodemus comes to Jesus by night with questions much as we might seek Jesus at night with our own fears and questions. We […]
View the Sermon (PDF)March 1, 2026, Second Sunday in Lent
During Lent we journey with Jesus and his church around the world, and today we remember how Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born of water and Spirit. In Holy Baptism we are a given new birth as children of God. As God made a covenant with Abraham, in baptism God promises to raise […]
View the Sermon (PDF)February 25, 2026, First Lent Midweek Service of Prayer
The theme of this year’s Lenten midweek prayer is “Holy Conversations with Jesus.” The Sunday lectionary for Lent reveals Jesus in conversation with both friends and adversaries. Lent’s first Sunday finds him confronting God’s ancient adversary in Matthew’s account of the temptation.
View the Sermon (PDF)February 22, 2026, First Sunday in Lent
Today’s gospel tells of Jesus’ temptation in the desert. His forty-day fast is the basis of our forty-day Lenten pilgrimage. During Lent, we struggle and wrestle with times of temptation and wilderness in our own lives. On Sundays during Lent, hungry for God’s mercy, we break the fast and receive the bread of life to […]
View the Sermon (PDF)February 18, 2026, Ash Wednesday
On Ash Wednesday, we begin a forty-day journey toward Easter with Christians around the world. Today is a day of fasting, repentance, and the imposition of ashes, reminding us that we will all die and return to the earth. As a fitting fast, Isaiah reminds us, “6Is not this the fast that I choose: to […]
View the Sermon (PDF)February 15, 2026, Transfiguration of Our Lord
Today’s festival is a bridge between the Advent-Christmas-Epiphany cycle that comes to a close today and the Lent-Easter-Pentecost cycle that begins this week on Ash Wednesday. On a high mountain, today’s gospel reveals Jesus’ divinity hidden in his humanity as the divine voice says, “This is my Son, my Beloved, with him I am well […]