by Sarah Toney | Apr 2, 2023 | Lent, Matthew, Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus Let’s not skip to Easter too quickly… Wow. What an emotional ride Palm/Passion Sunday is. We start here (hand up!) and end up here (hand down low!). Looking ahead to Easter through Holy Week, it’s like starting on one high...
by Sarah Toney | Mar 20, 2023 | Psalms, Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus A Prayer for Your Dark Days Normally, when I preach I focus on the gospel reading, but that’s not the focus today, even though there is a lot we could discuss in this gospel lesson about healing, testimony, and trust. There’s a lot that...
by Sarah Toney | Mar 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Today’s Sermon focus There is room for your questions and wonder in Christianity Nicodemus is my new hero and here’s why. He is a religious leader. He’s already supposed to know ‘all the things’ and be the one teaching other people ‘all the things.’ He’s not...
by Sarah Toney | Feb 5, 2023 | Matthew, Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus What does it mean to be the salt of the earth or the light of God? On my class trip to Guatemala this January, part of our visit took us to the village of La Esmeralda and a Lutheran congregation there. Esmeralda is in an isolated part of...
by Sarah Toney | Jan 1, 2023 | Matthew
Today’s Sermon focus We Are Being Loved Into Liberation At the beginning of my 6th grade year, my mom and stepdad moved to Bellevue, Washington from Spokane. This was a big move. I was starting middle school with not one friend and I was a desperately shy kid. I...
