Category: Sermons

Watch on YouTube 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 NRSV My granddaughter Lila was visiting a few years ago, when she was about three years old. We were all talking about what to have for dinner, and out of the blue, in a big booming voice…well, booming for a three-year-old, anyway…she said, “WE HAVE THE MEATS.”  That’s the ...

Martin Luther King Jr taught that "...[everyone] has a capacity to have fellowship with God. And this gives [them] a uniqueness, it gives [them] worth, it gives [them] dignity. And we must never forget this as a nation: there are not gradations in the image of God… We will know one day that God made us to live together as [family] and to respect the dignity and worth of [everyone].” Jonah seems to struggle with this about the Ninevites. And knowing that we ourselves are made in the image of God is part of trusting our belovedness.

Watch on YouTube John 1:43-51 [1] What you see is what you get.  The first time I heard this phrase I was watching Laugh-In on TV in the 1970s with my parents. The comic Flip Wilson was dressed as a woman doing his character Geraldine.  She was sassy and straightforward and didn’t take guff from ...

Watch on YouTube Luke 3:21-22 Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today… Where have you heard those words?  Probably at a wedding. Maybe a funeral. Or if you’re a Prince fan, you might recognize the first line of the song “Let’s Go Crazy”: “Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today to get through this thing ...

Samantha Corwin Preaching