My sermon this week invites us to enter into Holy Week with Jesus, as he enters into the holy city of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. 190415 Sermon – Rev. Elsa Marty – Beginning Holy Week Text: Luke 19:28-40
My sermon this week is about Mary anointing the feet of Jesus, and the overwhelming fragrance of God’s forgiveness poured out for us. 190407 Sermon – Rev. Elsa Marty – The Fragrance of Forgiveness Text: John 12:1-8
My sermon this week is about how God’s love is prodigal: foolish and extravagant. 190401 Sermon – Rev. Elsa Marty – God’s Extravagant Love Text: Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
My sermon this week calls us to confess the ways we seek to cut down and punish others, instead of to nurture. But thankfully God is a different kind of gardener, who gets his hands dirty and nourishes us with the love and forgiveness of Jesus the Christ, so that we can bear good fruit! […]
My sermon this week calls us to confess the ways we try to live on our own, without God. But the truth is that we are always surrounded by God’s love, even when we fail to see it. 190317 Sermon – Rev. Elsa Marty – Surrounded by God’s Love Text: Luke 13:31-35
Welcome to Lent! My sermon this week calls us to confess the ways we fail to live out our callings: 190311 Sermon – Rev. Elsa Marty – WDJD, What Did Jesus Do? Text: Luke 4:1-13
Here’s my sermon from Ash Wednesday, about dust and the cross: 190306 Sermon – Rev. Elsa Marty – Ash Wednesday, Dust & the Cross Texts: Isaiah 58:1-12 & Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Here’s my sermon for the seventh Sunday after Epiphany, on the challenges of Jesus’ radical ethic of love and generosity, which always points us back to him and his love for us, and transforms the whole world: 190224 Sermon – Rev. Elsa Marty – Love Your Enemies Text: Luke 6:27-38
“The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it.” (Martin Luther, Heidelberg Disputation, Thesis #28) In my sermon for the sixth Sunday after Epiphany, I talk about the nature of God’s love and why it’s such good news for us: 190217 Sermon – Rev. Elsa Marty – The Hospitality […]
Let’s talk about mission! Here’s my sermon from the fifth Sunday after Epiphany: 190210 Sermon – Rev. Elsa Marty – Catching People Text: Luke 5:1-11