February 16, 2025
- Rev. Dr. Luke Lindon
- The Prophet and the King
- 1 Samuel 18:1-4, 1 Samuel 20:35-42
- Open and Affirming
- Politics
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
We have a crisis of masculinity on our hands.
Open and Affirming
The Good Samaritan
February 25, 2024
- Rev. Dr. Luke Lindon
- Parables: Lent 2024
- Luke 10:25-37
- A2A
- Mental Illness
- Open and Affirming
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
Can we see God in the person we think is our enemy? That’s the challenge and indictment of the Good Samaritan Parable.
The Road to Harmony with Myself and God
January 28, 2024
- Michael Sferro
- Generation to Generation
- 1 Samuel 18:1-4, 1 Samuel 20:12-17, 2 Samuel 1:24-27
- Bowen Family Systems
- Open and Affirming
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
Dare then, to imagine, extending extravagant welcome to those who seek a relationship with God, even if God’s people have harmed them. We can be that place!
When It Goes Sideways
May 9, 2021
- Rev. Luke Lindon
- The New Normal
- Acts 24:10-23
- Open and Affirming
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
I love today’s reading with Paul on trial. “I cheerfully make my defense…” Paul’s first words.
Right Relationships
February 17, 2020
- Rev. Luke Lindon
- Who Are You?
- Deuteronomy 30:15-20
- Matt 5:21-37
- Open and Affirming
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
I say this because I’m considering a divorce. Not between Kate and I. But between myself and a hateful branch of Christianity.
To Look Away From God
March 3, 2019
Can our vision be Transfigured? Will we accept what God gifts us with? Will we heed God’s words, “This is my son… LISTEN.TO.HIM?” Or will we say, “I liked God better in the good ol’ days.” And build a dwelling for that?
What Comes Out
September 2, 2018
- Rev. Luke Lindon
- Mark 7:1-8 14-15 21-23
- Open and Affirming
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
Yet it’s not what you eat that makes you clean or unclean… it’s what comes out. If that’s true, then how is it with the body of Christ? What’s coming out of the church?
Snakes
March 11, 2018
- Rev. Luke Lindon
- Numbers 21: 4-9
- Psalm 107
- Open and Affirming
- Medina United Church of Christ Congregational
What might look like pointless complaining to those of us comfortable with the way things are might be people who are tired of being bitten, trying to move us toward the Promised Land