by Rev. Mariah Marlin-Warfield | Apr 18, 2021 | Sermons
Acts 6:8-7:2a and Acts 7:44-60 Here’s something that surprised me… In the Lenten study on the book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo, we came upon a passage in which Oluo describes how future generations will look at all the good work for justice...
by Rev. Mariah Marlin-Warfield | Apr 11, 2021 | Sermons
Luke 24:13-35 If you happened to make it to church last Sunday, then you might have heard the news. Jesus, who was killed on the cross, went and got up from the dead! The women were there. They saw the angels, they raced back and told the other disciples, and you...
by Rev. Mariah Marlin-Warfield | Apr 4, 2021 | Sermons
Luke 23:50-56 and Luke 24:1-12 Whoever wrote the Gospel of Luke employed a nifty narrative trick. He loved making the beginnings and endings match up, kind of like bookends. You’ll see this in the individual stories. You’ll see this in the arc of the Gospel, so if you...
by Rev. Mariah Marlin-Warfield | Mar 28, 2021 | Sermons
Luke 19:29-44 This is the day the LORD has made… This is the day Jesus comes riding into Jerusalem on a colt, and you won’t even believe it —the people realize who Jesus is! The crowds began throwing their coats on the ground. Some folks put their coats on the back of...
by Rev. Mariah Marlin-Warfield | Mar 14, 2021 | Sermons
Luke 16:19-31 One of the first questions people ask when they begin reading the Bible is: So how do we know whether this stuff is real or made up? How do we know if it’s true… It’s like there’s a line in our minds dividing fact from fiction, the real from the...
by Rev. Mariah Marlin-Warfield | Mar 7, 2021 | Sermons
Luke 15:1-32 Often in the middle of a funeral, we’ll hear Psalm Twenty-Three. And often when this happens, I’ll point out a miracle in the psalm that once you see, you can’t unsee. It was shown to me by the writings of Reverend Kuenning’s seminary colleague, Bible...
