Sermon Archive

06.28.09

Laughing at Jesus | Mark 5:21-43
Roger Nelson

He did what any father would do. When she was a toddler he loved that moment after her bath when she would be all wrapped up in a towel and crawl up in his lap for a story and she smelled like Eden before the fall.

06.14.09

Side with the Seeds | Mark 4:26-34
Roger Nelson

In this line of work it is easy to get jaded and cynical. Oh, you see the beautiful moments of babies and baptisms and you get to know the stories of drunks who got sober and the bruised who found some healing, but you also get a good dose of ...

06.07.09

Nick at Night | John 3:1-17
Roger Nelson

Maybe Nicodemus just couldn't sleep. Nicodemus was tossing and turning on his matt because he just couldn't put it together. He was a respected religious scholar. He had been to the best schools and studied with the best professors. He had risen ...

05.10.09

Verdant Vines | John 15:1-8
Roger Nelson

In the late 1930s a doctor at Harvard was discouraged by all the research done with sick people that divided the body into symptoms and diseases and viewed it through the lenses of a hundred specialized microscopes but that

05.03.09

Ego Eimi ~ Again and Again | John 10:11-21
Roger Nelson

I have a friend who is a therapist. I have a therapist who is a friend. Dr. David Olsen is the executive director of the Samaritan Counseling Center ~ housed in an old white house perched on the banks of the mighty Mohawk River in upstate New ...

04.26.09

In Good Company | Luke 24:36-49
Roger Nelson

Note: I am indebted to an essay by Scott Hoezee for setting me on this course... Flannery O'Conner created haunting and unforgettable characters set in the decline and decay of the American south. Grandly and grotesquely human the people in ...