Recent Sermons

Tonetta Landis-Aina
~ Job 3, Sermon 2 in Sassy Love, Sacred Faith series ~

July 4th was a good day for me. I spent the morning with my wife and son at the Independence Day parade in Capital Hill. We met up with friends and it was the kind of hot that makes summer burn in the memory with a kind of fond despair. In the evening, we met up with other friends and made the trek to the Jefferson

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Tonetta Landis-Aina, Summer Preaching Fellow
~ Job 2:1-10, Sermon 1 in Sassy Love, Sacred Faith  series ~

When I was a child growing up in North Carolina, with pig-tails and boy clothes, my father, along with planting his vegetables every year, implanted in me the importance of integrity. At the time, I could see this quality in him easily. After all, people often mistook him for a principal because of the air of moral correctness that he carried. I thought

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Rev. Ellen Jennings
~ Deuteronomy 10:17-21, Hebrews 13:1-3 ~

We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare and ensure the blessings of liberty
for ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
 
Preamble to the Constitution, Schoolhouse Rock
 

You know it, right?  The Preamble to our Constitution?  Whether you learned it in high

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Rev. Ellen Jennings
~ Job 38:1-18, Mark 4:35-41 ~

When Meg told me LaTia would sing “Motherless Child,” I thought: “Well, it’s a good thing I know in advance, so I can prepare myself.  Otherwise, I might not be able to preach…”

So, if you need time to recover, I get it.  And if you haven’t before the end of the sermon, I understand that as well.  Because we probably shouldn’t— shouldn’t recover.  We shouldn’t feel “okay” when children are

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 Serena Wiltshire
~ Luke 10:25-37~

Before I start my reflection about the 1960’s and 70’s, I would like to welcome and thank Rev. Dale Ostrander for being part of our service today.  Dale was called to be the Associate Minister of Cleveland Park Church fifty years ago this summer, and we modeled this morning’s service after that one in 1968.

I wanted to work on this service because I thought it would be interesting to see what our church

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