Sermon: Sunday, October 25, 2015: Festival of the Reformation & Service of Leave-Taking

Today our hearts are breaking as we say our goodbyes to a home that has sheltered us, that has nurtured us, that has seen members of our families married and buried. Here in this place, within these walls, at this font and around this table, we have encountered the living God, and we have been changed. Without this place, we would never have grown strong enough to leave this place. Facing our death, year after year, we have come alive. We are being reformed. We are free, so who knows what will happen next?

Sermon: Sunday, October 18, 2015: Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

While we may each have a different experience of grief and loss when it comes to our immanent departure from this building, our historic home -- we all know very well what it is like to have an experience of everything changing, what we lose and what we gain. By sharing our testimonies with each other, by sharing our stories of suffering and loss, we also create new openings for intimacy within the community, for a mutuality that makes our present sufferings more bearable and even transforms them into something new and life-giving.