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

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

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

Day of Pentecost - June 8, 2025 Rev Sarah Colvin You can find this week's readings here . Happy Birthday Church! The church as an...