by Sarah Toney | Sep 8, 2024 | healing, Jesus, Mark, Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus Today is your opportunity to engage with the text during Brunch Church! And it’s not the easiest text, but we can do hard things. This is one of those texts that make pastors groan when it comes up in the schedule of texts we...
by Sarah Toney | Sep 1, 2024 | Mark, Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus Being in the flow of God’s love for all people, for all the world, including ourselves. Many years ago, I was visiting my dad and Barb in Chicago in March. I learned on that trip that Chicago in March is one of the coldest places you...
by Sarah Toney | Aug 19, 2024 | John, Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus It’s not all up to you! All of us have stories about why we are in church today. Why we follow Christ. Why we listen to stories of Jesus with such attention. Why we pray. Afterall, we no longer live in a world where belief in God is...
by Sarah Toney | Aug 11, 2024 | John, Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus The Holy Space of Telling the Truth In life, we all know there are roads we don’t want to walk. We don’t want to walk through the valleys of the shadow of death. We don’t want to walk through grief or health challenges. Or disability. We...
by Sarah Toney | Jul 28, 2024 | John, Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus Small gifts, small steps are necessary but enough There once was a fundraiser who raised money for an international hunger nonprofit, The Hunger Project. In her book, The Soul of Money, she told the story of going to accept the biggest gift...
by Sarah Toney | Jul 21, 2024 | Mark, Sarah Toney Sermon
Today’s Sermon focus We Follow Jesus, Our Good Shepherd In 1859, Darwin published his famous treatise, Origin of the Species, in which he lays out the basic blueprint for evolution through competition or survival of the fittest. To say this book had an impact on...
