what (not) to do with demons
The Rev. Alissa Newton The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost text: Luke 8:26-39 They didn’t know what to do with their demons. It wasn’t a big...
The Gift
The Rev. Alissabeth Newton Pentecost Sunday text: Genesis 11:1-9 and Acts 2:1-21 It is a sunny, summer afternoon and I am picking up my...
Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears
The Rev. Alissa Newton Seventh Sunday of Easter text: John 17:20-26 and Acts 16:16-34 The year was 1870, and a woman named Julia Ward...
Who we love
The Rev. Alissa Newton Fifth Sunday of Easter text: John 13:31-35 and Acts 11:1-18 We were fighting so relentlessly that day, my brother...
Ordinary Love
The Rev. Alissa Newton The Third Sunday of Easter text: John 21: 1-19 A couple of years ago I went on a pilgrimage with some other newly...
This way to God's Kingdom
The Rev. Alissa Newton Palm/Passion Sunday text: Luke 19:28-40 and Luke 23:1-49 I don’t know if you have noticed, but there is some...
The parable of the __________.
The Rev. Alissa Newton Fourth Sunday of Lent text: Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 “The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, And It's Not...
Never Use One, Where Two Will Do
The Rev. Alissa Newton text: Luke 4:1-13 There is a saying among Organization Development consultants: “never use one where two will do.”...
In this way we are all the same
The Rev. Alissa Newton Ash Wednesday text: Matthew 6: 1-6,16-21 “Mama,” my daughter says to me one evening as we are eating dinner....