Archive (Sermons)

Mothering Love

Category: Easter / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
May 07, 2022

Mothering Love Bob Stillerman Fourth Sunday of Easter, 5/8/2022 Acts 9:36-43 Mothering Love Acts 9.36-43 5-8-2022 While I was a student at Wake Forest Divinity School, I was fortunate to have Phyllis Trible as a...

Acting Like It’s Easter

Category: Easter, Season of Easter / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
April 23, 2022

Acting Like It’s Easter Bob Stillerman Second Sunday of Easter, 4/24/2022 Acts 5: 27-32 Acting Like It Is Easter Acts 5.27-32 4-24-2022 When we gathered on Maundy Thursday, I mentioned the paradox of that first...

Seen and Seeing

Category: Resurrection Sunday / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
April 15, 2022

Seen and Seeing Bob Stillerman Easter Sunday, 4/17/2022 Luke 24:1-12 Seen and Seeing Luke 24.1-12 4-17-2022 Two women, Mary and Elizabeth are unlikely mothers. One too young, one too old, both scandalized unjustly by stubborn...

The Journey Ahead

Category: Palm Sunday / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
April 08, 2022

The Journey Ahead Bob Stillerman Palm Sunday, 4/10/2022 Luke 19:28-40 The Journey Ahead Luke 19.28-40 4-10-2022 I’ve read Luke’s account of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem many times. I have not, however, spent a whole of...

Exodus, Exile, and Newness

Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
April 01, 2022

Exodus, Exile, and Newness Bob Stillerman Fifth Sunday of Lent, 4/3/2022 Isaiah 43:16-21 Exodus Exile and Newness Isaiah 43.16-21 4-3-2022 The writer of Second Isaiah, positioned amid Babylonian exile, remembers the Exodus. God made space...

Meeting the Text Today

Category: Lent / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
March 25, 2022

Meeting the Text Today Bob Stillerman Fourth Sunday of Lent, 3/27/2022 Joshua 5:9-12 Meeting the Text Today Joshua 5,9-12 3-27-2022 I have often told this congregation that I understand salvation as space. God gives each...

Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding (Right Now!)

Category: Lent / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
March 18, 2022

Bring Me Some Figgy Pudding! Bob Stillerman Third Sunday of Lent, 3/6/2022 Luke 13:1-9 Bring Me Some Figgy Pudding Luke 13.1-9 3-20-2022 A political leader, intent on securing power, uses an act of terror to...

In the Land of the Living

Category: Lent / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
March 11, 2022

In the Land of the Living Bob Stillerman Second Sunday of Lent, 3/13/2022 Psalm 27 In the Land of the Living Psalm 27 3-13-2022 A few notes about our psalm. Let’s remember the central role...