Sermons

August 6, 2023 Daniel 6:3-16 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:8 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Twelve years ago today, I walked down this aisle, not in my clergy robe, instead in a wedding dress.  And before our families, friends, church family and God, Stu and I faithfully committed to love one another

July 30, 2023 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 16, 20-22 Psalm 98:4-9 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Disdain.  As she looked down on him figuratively and literally, she felt nothing but disdain in her heart.  How could he dance around like that?!  He looked so foolish, completely and utterly childish as he

July 23, 2023 Luke 10:25-37, Zechariah 7:8-10 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Love God and love your neighbor.  The whole Ten Commandments could be summed up with these two: love God and love your neighbor.  In a different place in the gospels, Jesus says the whole Hebrew law can be summed up in

July 16, 2023 Colossians 3:12-17 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Yesterday, my family arrived home from a week at Silver Lake camp, our Southern New England church camp.  From Sunday afternoon until Saturday morning, my husband, partner, and co-dean, Stu and I led a program called “Team Lego”

July 2, 2023 Matthew 4:1-11 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Peanut brittle.  We came home from vacation with the most delicious box of peanut brittle.  I have barely been able to stop myself from eating the entire box.  I am completely lacking in self-control when it comes to this peanut

June 18, 2023 Luke 1:5-25, Ephesians 4:1-6 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   While patience might be a virtue, it’s certainly not a characteristic we come by naturally; otherwise, Sesame Street would not need multiple segments teaching children how to wait calmly and be patient. We are people of

June 11, 2023 Galatians 5:16-23 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Years ago, I received this little box as a gift.  Inside of it are nine little coins with words on them: Courage, Luck, Love, Strength, Wisdom, Hope, Confidence, Patience, and Inspiration.  Often, when I am getting ready in the

May 28, 2023 Acts 2:1-21 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   “There is a weariness among us.  We are weary from the loads we carry and the challenges we face.  We have questions we cannot answer and problems we cannot solve.  We’d hoped that life would be an invigorating pilgrimage, a high-country

May 21, 2023 Acts 1:12-14, 23-26 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Talking things out with a trusted person; Making a pros and cons list; Asking a Magic 8 Ball.  There are lots of ways to make decisions in life – both the big and small. In today’s scripture passage from the Acts of the Apostles,

April 30, 2023 Confirmation Sunday 1 Timothy 4:13-15, 2 Timothy 1:5-7 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   The “laying on of hands”.  It sounds strange; however it is a tradition, an important tradition, that goes back to the very beginning of the Christian Church.  When the twelve apostles felt

April 23, 2023 Luke 11:1-4, Colossians 1:9-14 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   “Teach us to pray”, the disciples say to Jesus.  They ask him how to pray because they already know why they want to pray.  They want to pray because they see what a difference prayer makes in Jesus’ life.  They see

April 9, 2023 Easter Mark 16:1-7 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   It was an exciting day.  It was a nerve-wracking day.  They had been planning this day for months. Today was the day!  The day to get on the plane and see their friends, friends they had not seen in three years. They hoped the

March 26, 2023 Amos 5:18, 21-24 Micah 6:6-8 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   This is the Way.  Not this is the thought.  Not this is the belief.  This is the Way.  Long before it became the catch phrase of Disney’s Mandalorian, ‘this is the way’ was the calling of the Christian church.  This is

March 19, 2023 Genesis 1:26-31 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   I have been blessed to travel to a lot of beautiful places.  One of which is Grand Teton National Park.  The pictures for the Passing of the Peace online are ones I took there a summer ago.  All these months later, the grandeur and

March 12, 2023 John 13:34-35 1 John 3:16-18   I don’t want to speak for Sarah or Cameron however the first time I held my newborn child in my arms, I was filled with such love.  I was head over heels, completely, utterly in love.  And in that moment, I understood what sacrificial love was