by Stacey Hilliard | Aug 18, 2024 | Sermons
Since Christianity separated itself from Judaism around the particular question of Jesus’ resurrection, the debates about the importance of body vs spirit were present in Christianity from the get-go and have never really gone away. Why do we have so much trouble with this? At the start of the pandemic, the fur was flying around whether we were really celebrating Communion if we were together in a Zoom room but not in the same physical space. On Sunday we’ll look at the many ways that Christians have tried to sort this out and how one belief or another affects our ability to engage the problems we face.
– Pastor Anne
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by Stacey Hilliard | Aug 11, 2024 | Sermons
In seminary, it seemed every time I read ideas that resonated with me, the person was burned at the stake for heresy. Did you know that the root of the English word “heresy” is the Greek word meaning “to choose?” What’s the difference between a heretic, a reformer, and a dissenter? Over the next month we’ll look at those across Christian history who chose to challenge the orthodoxy of their day. Some of those ideas became mainstream, others still divide us. What do you believe? Who decides what heresy is? Is having different beliefs in the same religion a help or a hindrance?
– Pastor Anne
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by Stacey Hilliard | Aug 4, 2024 | Sermons
“You can’t put God in a box.” We hear that so often that’s it’s almost cliché. But is that really true? What is Jesus, if not God in a human box? One of God’s earliest forms of presence with Israel was in a literal box called the Ark of the Covenant. And yet, we’ve all seen how trying to both contain and locate the presence of God in a single place can lead to serious problems. How do we sort that out?
– Pastor Anne
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by Stacey Hilliard | Jun 30, 2024 | Sermons
As we close out our series on Methodism this Sunday, we need to fill in one big gap in John Wesley’s biography—the moment that an Anglican priest and failed missionary turned what had been a duty into a heart-felt passion. Without the moment that John Wesley’s heart became “strangely warmed,” Methodism, as we know it, would not exist. Watch or read to learn why.
– Pastor Anne
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by Stacey Hilliard | Jun 16, 2024 | Sermons
Our series on Wesley would be incomplete without looking at the way John Wesley taught Methodists to use money. “Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can” is the summary of his position; a very different take from orders like the Franciscans and other religious groups who take vows of poverty. Watch or read to learn why.
– Pastor Anne
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by Stacey Hilliard | Jun 9, 2024 | Sermons
Graduations are a time when speakers frequently point the way forward by looking back. We’re reminded of the basics of life that we learned in kindergarten and the values absorbed through the most important people around us from birth forward.
In that spirit, we’ll look at the most fundamental lesson of both the Old and New Testaments and look at how we can recognize and, more importantly, how to become people who lead with love.
– Pastor Anne
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