by Michael Usey; Psalm 69, NRSV [Portions of this sermon were adapted from an article by Daniel Hunter, “10 Things You Need to Know to Stop a Coup.”] I want…
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by Michael Usey; Philippians 1.12-30, NRSV We’re in the second week of our fall sermon series entitled Evolve. The evolutionary Christian concepts we’re considering this morning are thankfulness and resilience….
by Christian McIvor; Psalm 139 1.6, 13-18 and John 1. 43-51 Gravity is an interesting phenomenon. Not only is it the force that constantly pulls us toward the earth and…
by Matt Cravey I don’t know how memorial services will work in 2020. I don’t know if this will end up as a Facebook post, or if I will have…
by Michael Usey On the one hand, it’s folly to summarize a life gone too early, although four of us are going to try. On the other hand, I’ve stood…
by Blair Ramsey; Genesis 2. 1-7 2020 has been quite the year. At this point, I’m so tired of the joke “hindsight is 2020”. I received my college diploma via UPS…
Keith A. Menhinick | CPBC | 8.16.2020 Yall remember that old Vacation Bible School song? Dem bones dem bones dem… dry bones. My title for today’s sermon is “Carry dem…
by Kelli Joyce, 1 Kings 19.9-18 May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart always be acceptable in your sight, O God, my strength and my…
by Michael Usey; Isaiah 6.1-8 I know that many of you are listening because you’re hoping that you’ll hear an entire sermon about dream sex with spirit demons, about alien…
By Michael Usey, Genesis 4.1-16 A couple of weeks ago some guy named JSV4 went on Twitter to complain about his local Mexican restaurant. He posted a picture of his…
by Michael Usey My friend Brett Younger, a pastor in Brooklyn, opened his sermon last week this way. Do you ever feel like you are drowning and people think they…
by Lin Story-Bunce, Genesis 32. 22-32 When Caryanne and I learned we were pregnant for the first time, we immediately started thinking of possible names. Because we both have names…
Christian McIvorJuly 5, 2020 Isaiah 66.1-4, Matthew 7.21-27 Chrissy and I bought our first home – or at least, we started paying the bank for it – in the fall…
As far as I am concerned, the book of Jonah has the best last line in the Bible: “And should I not be concerned about Nineveh,” God says to Jonah,…
by Michael Usey Moses’ early history is the stuff of novels. When Pharaoh instituted a mass slaughter of the male infants of the Hebrews, Moses’ mother hid him in a…
by James Blay (Genesis 3.9-13) The birth of the Information age in the late 20th Century ushered in a period of immense access to information in very efficient ways. In…
by Michael Usey The world is a lot right now. Another week being trampled by the new and improved Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Corvid-19 (where the infection rate continues…
Luke 4.16-20, Acts 2.1-13 Two summers ago I took our youth to Laredo, TX – one of the largest port cities in the country just on the border of the…
by Michael Usey It’s Ascension Sunday, the most curious of all feasts on the church calendar –a celebration of the day Jesus left us, the day Jesus started to work…
New Testament Reading: Acts 17. 16-34, NRSV This past week I heard from five San Diego friends that I have not heard from in years; perhaps you have reconnected with…