All Categories - Rev. Rebecca Yowler
September 1, 2024
I’ve been a part of choirs for most of my life. I was in a national girl scout choir that...
March 17, 2024 ·
This meditation was delivered at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Ames, Iowa. It was...
December 17, 2023 ·
It is already the third Sunday of Advent, and if we had our wreath, it would be the day we light...
December 10, 2023 ·
We have never gotten to sing together during my time here at the Kensington, and I’d like to...
December 3, 2023 ·
A couple of years ago, I did a small sermon series with you on some songs of the season, their...
October 29, 2023 ·
Many years ago- nearly 20 at this point- I took a group of middle schoolers to a retreat in...
October 22, 2023 ·
Ok, let’s be honest. Does anyone really LOVE paying taxes? April 15 comes and everyone is like ...
October 14, 2023 ·
Imagine starting a relationship over a shared tuba. Maddy and Brian’s beginning is a little more...
October 8, 2023 ·
One of the many ways people like to use the biblical text is as a hard and fast rule book for how...
October 1, 2023 ·
The people of Israel had been through quite an ordeal. They had been wandering in the desert...
September 24, 2023 ·
When I was a kid, I had a collection of Garfield books. You remember him, right? The fat orange...
September 17, 2023 ·
As you well know, I cannot resist the opportunity to tell a woman’s story when it comes up in the...
August 20, 2023 ·
How far does welcome go? Just how welcoming and how accepting are you willing to be? How...
August 13, 2023 ·
This sermon was first delivered in 2001 a few short weeks after I started seminary. I revisited...
July 30, 2023 ·
I love the movie White Christmas- you know, the one with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera Ellen, and...
July 23, 2023 ·
What gets weeded? There are a lot of metaphors in today’s scripture. The farmer, the seed, the...
July 16, 2023 ·
For the most part, we have probably all heard the story of Rebekah and Isaac and how Rebekah was...
June 25, 2023 ·
There’s a lot to unpack in today’s scripture from Matthew, and there’s not enough time to get...
June 18, 2023 ·
It took me a long time in my adult life to realize I wanted to be a mother. For years and years,...
June 4, 2023 ·
I saw an image (the cover image for this post) on Facebook this week that made me stop in my...