Shepherd and Sheep
Rev. Drl Scott Stearman
4/26/15
Passion Week
David Massengill
4/13/14
Description:Photo: Palm Sunday by Jan Richardson
More Than A Dreamer
Michelle Nickens
1/19/14
Description:Michelle Nickens, Director of Adult Programming for Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries and Teaching Fellow at Union Theological Seminary.Photo: The Calling by Simon Dix
The Solitary Gospel
Paul Raushenbush
10/13/13
Description:Paul Raushenbush, Senior Editor for the Huffington Post and great-grandson of Walther Rauschenbusch.Photo: Testimony by Jan Richardson
God's Wedding Banquet
Michael Joseph
10/6/13
Description:Sermon shared via Skype by Rev. Michael Joseph, missionary serving in Bogota, Colombia with Global Ministries of United Church of Christ (UCC) and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).Photo: The Best Supper by Jan Richardson
Fixing the Great Chasm
Jeanene Mutchler
9/29/13
Description:Lazarus still lives among us.
Even Cowboys Get the Blues
Michelle Nickens
9/15/13
Description:1 Kings 19:1-19
Benediction: Remember Who You Are
Alan Sherouse
8/4/13
Description:The 1st of Alan's final 4 sermons at Metro based on a regular benediction used in our worship services."We remember who we are when we remember who God is, who God has always been, and who God will be."
Reconciled Sisters (Luke 10:38-42)
Alan Sherouse
7/21/13
Description:When it comes to Martha and Mary, we walk right into it everytime: the quick decision, the choosing of sides, the either/or.
More than Dust (Luke 10:1-11)
Alan Sherouse
7/14/13
Description:Shake the dust from your feet. For it's the light-footed and the unencumbered that will do the work of God in this world.Pictured: "Dusty Road" by Mikalhy Muncaksy
Facing Jerusalem (Luke 9:51-62)
Alan Sherouse
7/7/13
Description:There's a junction somewhere outside a Samaritan village in Galilee, miles from home and still miles from Jerusalem.Pictured: "Jerusalem" by Odnat
Theatrical Incarnation (Ezekiel 37:1-14)
Maryanne Henderson
6/30/13
Description:Someone once told me that “theatre is radical empathy.” How much more radical is God’s theatrical incarnation in Jesus? (A sermon by Maryanne Henderson, Summer Minister)Pictured: "Wilderness" by Jan Richardon.
The Spirit Means: Songs at Midnight (Acts 16:16-34)
Alan Sherouse
6/23/13
Description:What is it that makes people sing songs in the middle of the night?Pictured: Water cistern in Philippi, traditionally known as the “Prison of Paul & Silas”
The Spirit Means: Resurrection (Acts 9:36-43)
Alan Sherouse
6/16/13
Description:This story is not about Jesus, but about the power of resurrection in the life and work of one who had followed him.Pictured: Icon of Peter raising Tabitha
The Spirit Means: Conversion (Acts 9:1-20)
Alan Sherouse
6/9/13
Description:"Jesus hit him with a blinding light, and then his life began" - Mick Jagger, Saint of MePictured: "The Conversion of Saul" by Chris Cook
The Spirit Means: Community (Acts 2:42-47)
Alan Sherouse
6/2/13
Description:"Our care for the neglected and our active love have become our distinctive sign. . . they say of us, ‘Look how they love one another…’” - Tertullian writing of Christians in the 2nd centuryPictured: "The Best Supper" by Jan Richardson
We Are More (Matthew 28:16-20)
Alan Sherouse
5/26/13
Description:"If we could have fully taken into our community the name Trinity, we would have needed no further revelations and no more religion, for the life of God would have become our life." - from Open Secrets by Richard LischerPictured: "A Spiral Shaped God" by Jan Richardson
In Certain Light (Luke 24:44-53)
Alan Sherouse
5/12/13
Description:When Jesus ascended, some of the light of the scene bounced off of him and began to illumine the lives of those who had followed that far.Pictured: the "Ascension" panel from Metro's ceiling murals
Fireside (John 21:9-19)
Alan Sherouse
4/28/13
Description:Resurrection happens. And this is the place and time that it happens for Peter.
Daybreak (John 21:1-14)
Alan Sherouse
4/21/13
Description:It's that time of day that is just right for fishing, and just right for beginning again.Pictured: "The Miraculous Catch" by Corinne Vonaesch
The Conjugation of Hope (Luke 24:13-35)
Alan Sherouse
4/14/13
Description:What we believe has a lot to do with what we're hoping for.Pictured: "The Road to Emmaus" by Daniel Bonnell
Practice Resurrection (John 20:19-31)
Tiffany Triplett Henkel
4/7/13
Description:For the gospel writer, it seems important not only to give evidence of Jesus' resurrection, but also to highlight that resurrection is to be practiced.