Plough shares not Guns, Hope not Despair
This Sunday we celebrate our first Children’s Sabbath, an annual worship supported by the Children’s Defense Fund to recognize the dreams and needs of the world’s children. Our children’s choir will perform the anthem. Revs. David Lewicki and Beth Waltemath will be preaching “Plough shares not Guns, Hope not Despair” on Micah 4:1-5 through the […]
Silence At The Center of Creation
Rev. Beth Waltemath is preaching on Isaiah 55:6-12. During this Earth Day worship, we will pause and reflect on how every creature and created thing honors God just by being themselves. She will describe how she will use her sabbatical to revisit work she began in 2013 when she received a Lilly grant to study […]
Advent 1: Our Need for Shelter
Shelter means “refuge, covering, protection.” In a world where dangers are real, shelter is the place you go to be safe. Your body needs shelter, as does your spirit. For many of us, shelter remains elusive. At the heart of the Christmas story is a family who is unsheltered and afraid. Will they find shelter? […]
Holiness
The Sermon on the Mount is Matthew’s vision for the Christian life. Christians are to be “salt and light,” a demonstration plot of God’s Beloved Community on earth. But the Sermon issues so many commandments that are so stringent, it seems to many of us to be an impossible standard to meet. What if you […]
The Household of God
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God.” As we gather in sacred spaces to worship, in learning spaces to reflect, in communal spaces to make friends, in community spaces to serve, we undertake the work of spiritual formation. […]
Putting God First: Worship and Truth
Sermon Series: What is Church? The numbers are lousy. Church membership and attendance are down, across all traditions. Young people aren’t looking to faith communities for nourishment. This is creating a crisis of identity in the American church. Here at NDPC, we face our own decisions: with finite resources, how are we to live our […]
Salt & Light
Blessed are the poor in spirit, the meek, the merciful, the peacemakers. These Beatitudes are less instructions about how we are to be than declarations of who God is and how God see us. When we begin to see others this way, we become “salt” and “light” to the people around us. Rev. Waltemath, preaching […]
Life-Giving Power
For the Second Sunday of Advent, the sermon will focus on “Life-Giving Power.” Rev. Beth Waltemath, preaching.
Bear Witness
The Politics of God – The Arc of History Everyone is familiar with “political” sermons: they take a contemporary ‘hot-button’ issue, the preacher gathers a few points from the Bible to prove s/he’s right, and the message sounds like talking points from the Democratic or Republican party, with the word “God” thrown in. But in […]
World Communion & Global Partner Celebration
This Sunday (10/2) is World Communion Sunday, our annual celebration of our Global Mission partnerships. At 8:30am and 11:00am, we will worship with words and messages sent from our friends in Madagascar, Guatemala, Haiti, and Palestine. Rev. Beth Waltemath will preach on opening our eyes and hearts to people we’ve rendered invisible. Share Holy Communion […]