Sermons

Every Time I Feel the Spirit

Day of Pentecost - May 24, 2026 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here. Every time I feel the Spirit moving in my heart, I will pray. I go back to that song often, and I'll explain why. My father was a psychiatrist. There is a saying in medicine that one goes into psychiatry because you yourself are crazy or a close family member is crazy. His mother, my paternal grandmother, was very crazy, crazy and mean, the worst kind of crazy. She was also Pentecostal. T

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May 265 min read

The Hope That is in Us

6th Sunday of Easter, Year A - May 10, 2026 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here: "Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence." I'm sixty years old—or sixty years young; I'm not sure how I should view my age. What I can say is that for most of the time, this very well-known Biblical verse used to pop out at me as "hey, this is important," and probably

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May 115 min read

The Way Is Made by Walking

5th Sunday of Easter, Year A - May 3, 2026 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me." How many people succeed in doing this? No judgment here, and please know that I am particularly NOT judging your faith. To loosely quote a song, "if you succeed in doing this, tell me how." At any one time, I suspect around half of us have troubled hearts. It may be that our marriage or relationship is ro

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May 45 min read

Already Here, but Not Yet

1st Sunday in Lent, Year A - Feb 22, 2026 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here. I have a self-help book from the 90s called the Pain of Being Human. It could be retitled as the Sin of Being Human because it addresses little sins or transgressions that we all face- injured pride, lack of belonging, excluding others, self-pity, etc. If we subtitled biblical texts, we could go back and subtitle this passage of Genesis as the Sin of Being Human. However, rathe

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Feb 255 min read

The Size of a Mustard Seed

17th Sunday after Pentecost - Oct 5, 2025 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here. Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy. Amen. During this past week our Jewish brethren observed Yom Kippur, their day of atonement. I remember a Jewish friend explaining that it is their very big day for confession. Of course, our ritual practi

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Oct 6, 20255 min read

So Others Might Simply Live

16th Sunday after Pentecost - Sept 28, 2025 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here . “Live simply so that others may...

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Sep 29, 20256 min read

Serving Who Truly Matters

15th Sunday after Pentecost - Sept 21, 2025 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here. I don’t usually do this, but first I want to give a road map of where we are going in this sermon. This sermon is in two parts. First, I want to highlight how the passage from Jeremiah and the psalm can be helpful. Second, the Gospel is confusing, so we will spend some time there, and I think land somewhere hopeful. When I was in seminary, the second year of three, my then col

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Sep 22, 20255 min read