July 15, 2018 Peg Weissbrod
Let’s start this sermon with a little audience participation. Here’s the question: having listened to our Scripture reading with whom do you most identify? Who here is Team Mary? Who here is Team Martha? Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: anxiety, connection, contemplation, empathy, equipping, fear, hospitality, inspiration, Inward/Outward Journey, Luke, Luke 10: 38-42, Martha, Mary, nature, peace, power, prayer, relationship, rest, service, stress, study, trauma, walking the walk, wholeness, worryApril 15, 2018 Peg Weissbrod
Remember Marilyn Gifford? Many of you who joined this church 15 years ago did so because Marilyn Gifford stood at the Fellowship Hall entrance every Sunday and said “Good morning!” to you. And now Dene Young “womans” that post. How would we eat if Morag took her gift and left? Or if Nancy, Chuck, Dick, and Elspeth didn’t count the collection money? Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: 1 Corinthians 12: 12-26, characteristics of leadership, Deacons, discernment, discover, equipping the saints, gifts, John 21: 15-17, leadership, leading, power, servant leadership, service, stewardship, talents, time, willingnessJanuary 8, 2017 Peg Weissbrod
I saw the new Star Wars movie “Rogue One” over the holidays. If you are into those kind of movies, I recommend it. It’s the mythic battle of good vs. evil Just when the powers of the “dark side” seem certain to win, a person arises whose power and light confounds the darkness. In this movie it is Jin a young woman. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: arise, darkness, epiphany, Good vs evil, Herod, Isaiah 60, light, magi, Mary Oliver, Matthew 2, power, risk, Rogue One, shine, tension, trust, wise menJune 5, 2016 Peg Weissbrod
I don’t doubt for a moment that Jesus brought the son of the widow of Nain back to life. Jesus was reported to be a wonder worker, a healer – and the gospels relate several occasions when Jesus brought a dead person back to life. After all, our Christian faith’s foundation is resurrection. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Back in Business, change the world, communion, community, compassion, criticism, cynicism, hope, life-giving, Luke 7, mission, no commitment, power, prophetic, resurrection, truthJune 14, 2015 Peg Weissbrod
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Tags: 1 Samuel 15, 2 Corinthians 5, appearances, be reconcilers, David, homeless, judging people, labels, ministry of reconciliation, money, narcisisstic, new creation in Christ, poverty, power, preoccupation with success, reconciliation, Saul, social vision, stereotypes, transformative power, walk by faith not by sight, Walter Brueggemann, wealth inequalityApril 13, 2014 Peg Weissbrod
I think of myself as someone who reads people pretty well. It’s always a good lesson though to be off the mark some times. I was returning home the other evening from Connecticut on a very full flight. I sat down next to a tall, lanky, dark brown-skinned young Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: allegiance, assumptions, commitment, happiness, Holy Week, impressions, Matthew 21, Palm Sunday, power, prophets, Sudanese, the Winner's Church
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