Scott Clark Feb 22 9 min The Blessing of Discomfort -- Isaiah 58:1-12 (First Sunday in Lent) God blesses us with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships so that we might live deeply and from the heart.
Scott Clark Feb 21 2 min Prayers for the Week of February 21, 2021 -- Blessing for the Journey Please join us in the prayers prayed in worship this Sunday, February 21, 2021. This Lenten season, we are embracing the theme "Blessing...
Scott Clark Feb 18 6 min The Blessing of Dust -- Psalm 103 (Ash Wednesday) On Ash Wednesday, we remember that we are dust and that God’s steadfast love endures forever. What will we make of the dust of our lives?
Scott Clark Feb 14 9 min The Silence Between the Words -- Mark 9:2-9 (Transfiguration Sunday) Transfiguration brings us to the place where the words run out, and invites us into the holy experience of silence.
Scott Clark Feb 7 8 min "The Real Presence of Christ" -- Mark 14:17-26 (Fifth Sunday After Epiphany) In communion, we embody the real presence of Christ. The real presence of Christ is not complete without you.
Scott Clark Jan 24 10 min "Together We Serve" -- John 1:35-51 (Third Sunday After Epiphany) The Word becomes flesh as Jesus calls us into community – and we call each other – “Together We Serve.”
Scott Clark Jan 17 11 min "Grace Abounds" -- Galatians 1:11-24 (Second Sunday of Epiphany; MLK Sunday) Grace calls those who have participated in the harm to change, and then invites them to participate in the healing.
Scott Clark Jan 10 10 min The Words We Say -- "A Place for You Here" -- Mark 1:1-15 (First Sunday After Epiphany) Claimed as God’s beloved in baptism, Jesus calls us to the work of making manifest in our lives the life-giving, life-honoring reign of God.
Scott Clark Jan 4 10 min "This Is the Day" -- John 1:1-14; Psalm 118 (Second Sunday of Christmas & Sunday Before Epiphany) Always, as we begin again, Christ manifests God’s Word in us.
Martha Joyce Dec 28, 2020 4 min "A New Name Springs Forth" Today's sermon was preached by Rev. Marissa Danney, hospital chaplain and chaplain educator at UCSF and friend of this congregation. Less...
Scott Clark Dec 22, 2020 6 min "The Longest Night of the Year" -- Luke 2:8-19 (4th Sunday in Advent) In Advent, a weary world waits and hopes through the longest nights for the coming of the light of Christ.
Scott Clark Nov 30, 2020 10 min "Light Dawns on a Weary World" -- Mark 13:24-37 (First Sunday of Advent) In the dawning of Christ’s new day, Jesus invites us to keep on watching for what God is doing in the world and the work that is ours to do.
Scott Clark Nov 25, 2020 5 min Reflections on a Thanksgiving Like No Other (Psalm 136) This is a Thanksgiving like no other AND a Thanksgiving like every other: God’s steadfast love endures forever.
Scott Clark Nov 22, 2020 9 min Where Christ (the King) Stands -- Matthew 25:31-46 (Christ the King Sunday) Christ the King stands in power and tender mercy with those whose backs are up against the wall.
Scott Clark Nov 8, 2020 10 min Steady On -- Matthew 7:24-29 & Psalm 46 (23rd Sunday After Pentecost) Hope is what we do every morning when we rise with the day and say, “We can do this.”
Scott Clark Nov 1, 2020 9 min The Hope of the Saints -- Deuteronomy 8:6-18 (All Saints Day; 22nd Sunday After Pentecost) In the communion of the saints, our memory of life with God yesterday points us to how we might find our way to life today and tomorrow.
Scott Clark Oct 26, 2020 8 min "The World Is Full of Wonderful Things" -- Philippians 4:4-8 (21st Sunday After Pentecost) Even in the midst of a troublous world, standing in the unshakeoffable love of Jesus Christ, we affirm: The world is full of wonderful thing
Scott Clark Oct 18, 2020 10 min Still Amazed -- Matt. 22:15-22 (Rev. Dr. Aimee Moiso, preaching) (Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost) The Resurrected One has the power to turn our traps and tricks into astonishment and newness.
Scott Clark Oct 11, 2020 12 min What Kings Do -- Why Every Vote Matters -- 1 Samuel 8 (19th Sunday After Pentecost) In God’s sovereignty, God honors our agency to choose, inviting and empowering us to participate in God’s re-making of the world.
Scott Clark Oct 4, 2020 10 min How Free People Live -- Exodus 20:1-4, 7-17 (The Ten Commandments) (18th Sunday After Pentecost) With the Ten Commandments, God give us an expression of how free people live; a path for living lives of trust; and a law called love.
