Sermons from Montview Church

Rev. Ian Cummins

Rev. Clover Reuter Beal Palm Sunday

Rev. Dr. Doug Gay Guest Preacher

Sandy Prouty Minister of Children and Families

Rev. Ian Cummins Easter Sunday

Dr. Peter Hulac Minister of Visitation

Rev. Ian Cummins

Rev. Clover Reuter Beal

Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber Theologian-in-Residence

Rev. Ian Cummins

Montview Youth Youth Sunday

Rev. Clover Reuter Beal

Rev. Ian Cummins Poem referenced in sermon: The older I become, the more aware I am of mystery, especially in my faith. I think when I was younger, it might have frightened me to think of faith containing mystery; I valued thinking too much to entertain that notion. I wanted to know what was true, what was “right,” Studying, analyzing, knowing! Why, this mystery thing just might have spun me into far flung galaxies of uncountable, immeasurable, entities much as envisioned in the Hubble telescope - and now the Webb. The very idea! It feels so much more clear now that mystery doesn’t cancel more empirical, nail-downable knowledge, the brain’s direct perceptions - but dances with them, and I relax into how much I’ve always loved imagining as well as “knowing.” In this space, it’s tempting to say there is no black and white of it but there is. God loves us. We are the beloved. Period. But what God’s loving means to us opens the door to those galaxies not only of every shade of gray but of every color as well. Just looking out my study window, watching the aspen leaves dance, sometimes listening to music, I go to another place as the undeniable presence of God, of Spirit, surrounds me, something ethereal courses through my veins, and tears of gratitude and awe gently well up. How I express this - what’s “seen” in the mystery, what’s experienced and felt, what this other knowing is - becomes the more difficult task.

Rev. Clover Reuter Beal

Rev. Ian Cummins

Rev. Clover Reuter Beal

Rev. Amanda Osenga Associate Pastor of Youth and Families

Rev. Clover Reuter Beal Christmas Eve Service

Rev. Ian Cummins 4th Advent Service

Rev. Ian Cummins