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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 26—September 27, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: If you had a bowl of your favorite ice cream, and it tasted like sand, you wouldn’t eat it. In today’s Gospel Jesus talks about throwing out salt that is no longer salty. Each of you is a favorite of God, and you each have your own special salty flavor. That’s the way God made you, so keep that saltiness in your life.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 25—September 20, 2015
Preacher: Hope Jahren
Summary: We each have our favorite things, and I brought my French horn. You can see that sound goes round and round until it comes out here. In that way, it’s like the DNA in our cells. We have French horns to make jusic and give us joy. I pray that we are able to take everything that God gives us—including wound up things like this horn and our DNA—and use them for joy.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 24—September 13, 2015
Preacher: Hope Jahren
Summary: Today I’m substituting for Pastor Jeff, so I brought my favorite children’s book, Aesop’s Fables, and the story of “The Fox and the Grapes.” The fox was hungry and wanted grapes, but he couldn’t get them, so I said he didn’t want them and the must be sour anyway. We’re like the fox sometimes, but I hope you’ll be thankful for the gifts you do have.
This children’s conversation was not recorded because of technical problems.
Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 23—September 6, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: Faith is sort of like believing but more. In today’s Gospel, Jesus won’t heal the daughter of the woman because she isn’t Jewish. But her answer to him shows that she has faith that Jesus will heal. Faith is like this clamp which holds together the two pieces of the cross.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 22—August 30, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: Traditions are ways we act that we pass on from generation to generation. For example, here at LCH we have a tradition of great organ music, but in an African or Latin American church, they would have different musical traditions. Traditions can enrich our lives, but sometimes we just do things out of habit. Traditions are worth following when they help us understand the love of God.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 21—August 23, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: Sometimes we think one of our subjects at school is too hard, so we stay away from that class. But if we do that, we can be in trouble later. In today’s Gospel, some of Jesus’ followers have trouble when Jesus talks about eating the bread of life. But Peter says that there is no one else for them to follow. When you have a hard time understanding about Jesus, you can go to your parents of come to me, and we can help you find answers.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 20—August 16, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: We were just singing “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands,” and when I said “eat some bread,” you all looked confused. The disciples and others in today’s Gospel were also confused when Jesus said, “I am the living bread.” Now eating Jesus’ bread of heaving is really about love, you can show that by hugging someone. So let’s try it.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 19—August 9, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: In today’s Gospel, Jesus says, “I am the bread of life,” and people think he’s crazy. But God takes ordinary things and makes them holy. This happens with the ordinary bread we use in Communion. It you take ordinary plumeria flowers and make them into a lei, they become a symbol of love. In many ways, Jesus was an ordinary man, but in the way he lived his life, we find the bread of life.
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Time after Pentecost • Lectionary 18—August 2, 2015
Preacher: Pastor Jeff Lilley
Summary: In today’s Gospel, the people follow Jesus and the disciples to the other side after being fed. But this time Jesus feeds them spiritually with the Bread of Life rather than with the bread they are looking for. We receive the Bread of Life through communion. The bread at communion is not God’s love, but it carries God’s love for us like a bucket carries water.