Category: Sermons


  • Ways of Knowing

    Ways of Knowing

    The Epiphany story of the Magi teaches that intuition and dreams are trustworthy and can guide us to safety in God’s care.

  • The Wisdom of the Body

    The prelude to John’s gospel reveals God’s movement through the wisdom displayed by Jesus – wisdom available to us now.

  • Love’s Less Glamorous Faces

    Small, unglamorous acts of love still count.

  • Joy’s Gateway

    Joy’s proximity to pain

  • Holy Dreaming

    Holy Dreaming

    For those whose agency has been stripped from them, dreaming is a first step towards a more just future. For those with agency to act, the dreams of our ancestors are a call to act.

  • Relying On Leviathan

    Relying On Leviathan

    Photo by Taylor on Unsplash A sermon on Job 40:6-8, 41:1-4by Rev. Chris Bohnhoff Will you pray with me? Creator God, it’s easy to give thanks for all the beings that sustain and enrich us: the plants and animals that feed us, the flowers and majestic creatures who gift us with their beauty, the waters…

  • Ancestral Glow

    Ancestral Glow

    A sermon on Luke 9:28-36by Rev. Chris Bohnhoff Friends, will you pray with me? Loving God, holder of all memory, on this All Saints Day we thank you for the bonds that stretch across generations, across geography, across the mystery that lies between life and death. Help us continue learning from our ancestors. Help us…

  • Squandered Property

    Squandered Property

    What does it mean to act shrewdly in our culture? What did it mean to Jesus?

  • Acceptable Losses

    Acceptable Losses

    Jesus assumes that everyone would go after one lost sheep. Is that true?

  • How to Talk to Crowds

    How to Talk to Crowds

    A Sermon on Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18, and Luke 14:25-33by Rev. Chris Bohnhoff If there ever was a preacher who worried they might run out of things to preach about, if they’re still preaching, 2025 has wiped that thought from their minds. I could whip up half a dozen sermons a week these days just reading…