Written On Our Hearts
March 4, 2018 — Rev. Paula Norbert This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 No longer […]
Transfiguration Mountaintop Moments
February 11, 2018 — Rev. Paula Norbert Our reading today reminds us of the important moment when Jesus invites a few of his followers to join him up on the mountaintop where they will be amazed and changed by what they witness. It is life changing for them, and it probably inspired them even more […]
Healing and Care
January 28, 2018 — Rev. Paula Norbert “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.” These words are taken from our reading today from Matthew, which we commonly refer to as the Beatitudes. If we listen carefully, we can hear the important themes of Jesus’ ministry. This is his great Sermon; we often call […]
A Faith That Does Justice
January 14, 2018 — Rev. Paula Norbert The prophet Micah responds to one of the great questions in Scripture that people of faith have wondered about for centuries,saying, “ what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6) As we […]
A Blessing for Today
December 31, 2017 — Rev. Paula Norbert In our Gospel reading today, Luke speaks of Jesus’ presentation in the temple. In Luke’s story, his parents bring the infant Jesus to the temple that day to fulfill the Law of Moses. They make the offering of a poor family. In the temple, the family is greeted […]
Christmas Eve Message
December 24, 2017 (5PM Service) — Rev. Paula Norbert Over 800 years ago in a small town in Italy, a man named Francis wanted to re-create the experience of the first Christmas. He felt that people at his time had lost the true spirit of the birth of Christ, and so he gathered with a small […]
And a Child Shall Lead Them
December 24, 2017 (10AM Service) — Rev. Paula Norbert Beautiful words we hear today from Isaiah, this prophet- poet, speaking about a child “born for us” who shall be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, and prince of peace. Early in Advent, we read from Isaiah the passage we call the peaceable kingdom where Isaiah prophesies […]
Love’s Presence Among Us
December 10, 2017 — Rev. Paula Norbert We have arrived at the second Sunday in Advent and today we celebrate Love. As so many have done before us, we remember the stories of the birth of Jesus, only told by Gospel writers Matthew and Luke; we read these stories to remember the promises of old […]
Walk in the Light
December 3, 2017 — Rev. Paula Norbert Today is the first Sunday in Advent…and we are invited to prepare our hearts and minds once again for the coming of Jesus at Christmas. We read again from the great prophet Isaiah where he speaks of the coming of the Messiah, the long expected one, the one […]
What Then Must We Do?
November 26, 2017 — Rev. Paula Norbert “Whenever you did this to the least of my brothers and sisters, you did it to me.” In this often-quoted passage from Matthew, we are invited to think and think hard about the concrete ways we live out the message of Christ in our lives. If we listen […]