August 8, 2022
If we were to interview potential messiahs, we more than likely wouldn’t hire the one who said, “I come to bring division.”
All Sermons
Rich Toward God
August 1, 2022
- The Rev. Dr. Luke Lindon
- Luke 12: 22-31
- Psalm 49:1-12
- Stewardship
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
People over the psychopathic pursuit of profit.
Our Opportunity to Become WISE
July 25, 2022
So is it any wonder that in some of the passages where Jesus comes in the presence of a demon-possessed person that the demon cried out at Jesus in fear and anger?
UCC Peace & Justice Civil Rights Pilgrimage in Alabama
July 17, 2022
If there is one thing I really, truly took away from my time in Alabama, it was how welcoming these Black communities were to white interlopers, how much they are reconciling the bloody past in this country, how much faith they have, and how willing they are to forgive and move on together
Parables
July 10, 2022
We are not the Samaritan. We are the one in the ditch. And we’re looking at someone we have been told all our lives is a danger to us and might even kill us walk up to us and save us. Jesus gives a parable where our arch-enemy bears the image of God.
Could Be Beautiful
July 3, 2022
My whole childhood, I saw a war on poverty, a war on drugs, a war on terrorism, and war on whatever… it’s the only metaphor we have. We’re such a warring culture, but Jesus is not on the wolf side, he sends us out like lambs.
No Place
June 26, 2022
Foxes have holes. Birds of the air have their nests, but the Son of Man, like so many folks today… have no place to lay their heads. We have placed profit over people.
Legion
June 19, 2022
- The Rev. Dr. Luke Lindon
- 1 Kings 19:1-4 and 8-15
- Luke 8:26-39
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
I love the Bible not because the stories happened, but they are happening, right now. All the time.
The Sea Its Limits
June 12, 2022
- The Rev. Dr. Luke Lindon
- John 16:12-15
- Proverbs 8:1-4 22-31
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
Slavery was a massive issue in our country. It is in the Constitution. It shaped state lines and impacted when territories became states. It shaped census numbers as black folk who were slaves were counted as 3/5s a person. It impacted daily lives then and now.
The Cost and the Joy (Pentecost)
June 5, 2022
- The Rev. Dr. Luke Lindon
- Faces of Jesus
- Acts 2:1-13
- Romans 8:14-17
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
The creeds we can treat, like Quaker minister Philip Gulley states, “Like an old family photograph on the wall.”
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