Worship Sermons

Pastor James Clarke’s sermon for Sunday, November 13, 2016, just after the presidential election. Listen to the sermon here. The first thing I want to say is that the thinking and planning for this sermon came before the election on Tuesday… I wrote all but the very end of this on Tuesday […]

Pastor James Clarke’s sermon for Sunday, November 6, 2016: All Saints Sunday. Listen to the sermon here. One of the hardest things to learn in life is that we don’t belong to ourselves…. Owning things is natural for us, so why wouldn’t we own ourselves? As a matter of fact, of all […]

Pastor James Clarke’s sermon for Sunday, October 30, 2016. This is the forth and final sermon on Stewardship for 2016. I love this Church. As with people, churches have a story, character and spirit. When I came here in 2010 the mood was not so good. Numbers were down. Our appointment system […]

Pastor James Clarke’s sermon for Sunday, October 23, 2016. This is the third sermon on Stewardship. You can listen to the sermon here. I don’t like upgrades, I hate upgrades… This has been a difficult week in our house with upgrades. I get comfortable with a way of doing things and kaboom! It’s all […]

Pastor James Clarke’s sermon for Sunday, October 16, 2016. This is the second sermon on Stewardship. You can listen to the sermon here. Ever felt like you were in a black hole? In Defying Gravity, Tom Berlin uses the black hole as a metaphor for what happens sometimes in life when you get […]

Pastor James Clarke’s sermon for Sunday, September 11, 2016. Have you ever wondered why so many/most states have two primary state sponsored institutions of higher learning? I’m talking about the University of Washington and WSU, Oregon and Oregon State, Idaho and Idaho State, Montana and Montana State, Colorado and Colorado […]

“The Christ Who Shed Stone Tears,” Pastor Jim Clarke’s sermon for August 7, 2016. Scripture: I Corinthians 1:26-3 and Luke 12:32-34. Listen to the sermon here. Thirty-four years ago I went on a pilgrimage. I took a trip from one end of Japan to the other. I was living in Hokkaido, the […]

“The Lord’s Prayer,” Pastor James Clarke’s sermon for July 24, 2016. Scripture: Luke 11:1-13. To listen to the sermon, click here. Have you ever listened to children first trying to memorize the Pledge of Allegiance? In many cases it comes out: “One nation under God, invisible… with liberty and justice for […]

Sermon for July 17, 2016” “A Do Be Do Be Life”. Scripture: Luke 10:38-42   A Joke. An old joke that I’m sure has many variations… this is mine: Two philosophers walk into Starbucks. One is a Behaviorist who orders a Venti Chai Tea with fat free soy milk. The other […]