"You shall love God with all your heart... and your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:30-31Friends,Jesus is clear. These are the greatest commandments, and they work together. You can't love God without loving your neighbor, and th...

Please join Pastor Ekama Eni in a moment of prayer (from the October 27, 2024 service).

We know that from the beginning until now, all of creation has been groaning in one great act of giving birth. – Romans 8:22Friends, This week we’re continuing our pre-election sermon series, The Uncommon Good, which is...

Please join seminary intern Aurora Celestin in a moment of prayer (from the October 20, 2024 service).

"Whoever wishes to become great among you must be a servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be servant of all." Mark 10:43Why are we here? That's a question I ask myself every now and then. Maybe more now than then, given...

Friends,"Who are you?," is one of those big existential questions that I think faces all of us. On the most basic level, our names are the first ever introduction we get to most relationships. From emails, to texts, to perhaps even bein...

Please join Pastor Lea Matthews for a moment of prayer (from the October 13, 2024 service).

God said to Noah, “This rainbow is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all the animals that are on the earth.” Genesis 9:17This Sunday, in honor of the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, we will celebrate a Bless...

"Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of prayer and praise." James 5:13 We have reached the fifth and last part of our sermon series on the Joy of James, and find, in this final ch...

Please join Sally Rausch (St. Paul & St. Andrew Seminary Intern) for a moment of prayer (from the September 22, 2024 service).

"For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."  James 4:14bFriends,As I've been prepping for Sunday, my brain keeps transporting me back to the Intermediate Hebrew class I took during seminary. Perh...

Please join Pastor Lea Matthews in a moment of prayer (from the September 15, 2024 service).

"And the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace."  James 3:18Friends,How much peace have you made this week? What does it even mean to 'make peace'? In the literal sense of the phrase, James ...

Please join Aurora Celestin in a moment of prayer (from the September 8, 2024 service).

Remember Walkmans?  Remember cassette tapes?  Well in that same era, I have a distinct memory of "borrowing" my mother's Jane Fonda workout tape and putting it into my walkman.  I set off on a walk.  The design o...

"Be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves." James 1:22Don't just listen, do something! That could sum up the message behind the Epistle of James.For the five weeks of September, Lea, Andrea and I are t...

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom else can we go? You have the words of eternal life..."  John 6:68This week's lectionary serves up some strange passages. The Gospel reading begins with Jesus saying, "Those who eat my flesh ...

Join Pastor Lea Matthews for a moment of prayer (from the August 25, 2024 service).

Friends,We live in a time of great political transition—both in the US and globally—a time of genocide and endless hate & strife. The last few weeks we at St. Paul & St. Andrew have wrestled with stories from the life and rule o...

Join Ekama Eni for a moment of prayer (from the August 18, 2024 service).

Join Griffin Lockette for a moment of prayer (from the August 11, 2024 service).

Have you ever had to be a bearer of bad news? How did you feel or what did you do to prepare to give someone a word that you knew was going to be hard? Have you had to lay someone off? Deliver the news of someone’s passing for the first time? C...

"...but speaking truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ..." - Ephesians 4:15Friends,Who's been watching the Olympics this week? I confess, I've missed most of it so far, except for a fe...

"A large crowd kept following Jesus, because they saw the miracles that he was doing..."  John 6:2What is a miracle? I don't know how I feel about miracles. On the one hand, I feel like most things that happen have a s...

Friends, What a week! I don't know about you, but I think I'm all about tired of saying and feeling this. Continued political strife and violence, failing infrastructure at the hands of our inability to be good stewards of our reso...