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...
by Sarah Toney | Dec 26, 2022 | John, Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus Our complexity at Christmas is welcome! I hope you had a blessed Christmas Eve and have enjoyed the beginning of your Christmas Day. Christmas is the day we celebrate the incarnation of our Lord Jesus with us here, in our lives, in our...
by Sarah Toney | Dec 1, 2022 | Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus Are we to just be drinking beer? Hmm… As some of you know, I really enjoy bringing poetry into conversations about Scripture. I heard a great one the other day in one of my seminary classes that seems so perfect for this first...