As we wade further into the biggest issues of our day and the choices before us that will shape the future for generations to come, this Sunday we will look at the migration of peoples and the challenges and opportunities that presents; both for those migrating and for the places that receive them. Both the Old and New Testaments have something to say about that.
– Pastor Anne
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This week’s sermon begins a seven-week series focused on some of the largest challenges we face as a nation and world, with an eye to how our choices will affect future generations. Since all choices will be moot if our planet becomes uninhabitable, we start there. The time for some choices related to the earth have passed; but others still remain.
– Pastor Anne Robertson
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This last week of looking at heresies and ideas that have divided the church, we are revisiting an issue we mentioned in passing during our visit with Pelagius. Are human beings truly free to choose our actions and direct the course of our lives or does God have a plan with all that mapped out ahead of time? Is the meaning of our lives given to us from beyond or made by us as we live? It’s actually a question that bedevils science as well as the church. Watch and listen (or read) to learn more about that and more!
– Pastor Anne Robertson
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In the catalogue of church disputes across the centuries, few loom as large as the question of whether we are saved by faith or our works. The second chapter of James is on point that the two things belong together, but that hasn’t kept us from fighting about it. Watch and listen (or read) to learn more about that and more!
– Pastor Anne Robertson
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In this sermon, we’re back with the heretics, taking a good look at the heresy that made Constantine the Great convene the Council of Nicaea. Arius is the name of the man who started it all. Why are there Medieval legends about St. Nicholas punching Arius at the Council of Nicaea? Watch and listen (or read) to learn more about that and more!
– Pastor Anne Robertson
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“I verily believe, the real heresy of Pelagius was neither more nor less than this: The holding that Christians may, by the grace of God, (not without it; that I take to be a mere slander,) ‘go on to perfection;’ or, in other words, ‘fulfill the law of Christ.’”
– John Wesley
Who was Pelagius? Why did the church brand him a heretic, and why did John Wesley stand up to defend him more than a thousand years after Pelagius death? Watch and listen as I introduce you to another one of my favorite heretics.
– Pastor Anne Robertson
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