Sermon Archive
The heart of West End’s week is Sunday Worship at 11am, when we gather in community to worship and share our journey of faith together.
Our Sermon Archive is a place where you can watch past sermons, listen to them, or read the text - whatever is most accessible and nourishing to you.
- 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 1
- 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 1
- Acts 1
- Anti-Racism 25
- Arts 8
- Ash Wednesday 1
- Book of Wisdom 1
- COVID-19 31
- Community 48
- Corinthians 3
- Corinthians 12:1-11 1
- Corinthians 13:1-13 1
- Creation 14
- Current Events 31
- Easter 2
- Exodus 1
- Exodus 34:29-35 1
- Faith in Action 15
- Faithful Living 47
- Genesis 1
- Gospels 26
- Hebrew Bible 51
- Holidays 24
- Holy Week 2
- Interfaith 2
- Isaiah 3
- Isaiah 43:16-21 1
- Isaiah 55:1-9 1
- Isaiah 6:1-13 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Jeremiah 17:5-10 1
- Job 1
- John 1
- John 2:1-11 1
- Joshua 1
- Joshua 5:9-12 1
- LGBTQ+ Pride 8
- Lay theology 2
- Lent 1
- Luke 7
- Luke 13:1-9 1
- Luke 17:20-21 1
- Luke 1:39-55 1
- Luke 4:14-21 1
- Luke 6:17-26 1
- Luke 6:27-38 1
- Luke 9:28-36 1
- Mark 7
- Mark 12:38-44 1
- Mark 13:1-8 1
The Measure of What We've Lost
Pastor Will gets the congregation ready for hybrid worship, and encourages us to keep the faith as we move towards an uncertain future.
Departing Grace
Pastor Will's sermon calls us to take notice and appreciate the changes all around us.
Finding God in All the Wrong Places
Guest preacher, Rev. Anthony Livolsi from Marble Church, urges us to find God in unexpected places.
Speaking the Truth
Pastor Bridget uses her personal experience to encourage us to speak the truth about history, race, and building the Beloved Community.
A Resting Place for God
Pastor Will reminds us that moving forward and even resting are all blessed and guided by God. What do we all need from God, who always walks with us?
The Mystery of a Mustard Seed
This week, Rev. Jennifer Aull is our guest preacher for our Pride in the Pulpit series. How does mystery play a role in both agriculture and parables? The growth of a seed has much to teach us as we live into the action, patience, and hope of the kindom yet to come.
Search Committees
This week Rev. William Critzman unearths the Scriptural precedent for work done by committee. As West End begins to sing a new song of great discernment and hope, how can we trust the creation and re-creation all around us?
Like a Mother’s Love
On this day, Rev. William Critzman reminds us of the simple complexity of motherhood. As we celebrate the mothers in our lives we remember how Mary cared for her son. A mother’s love can change the world.
The Abundance of Resurrection
This week, Rev. William Critzman reminds us that resurrection can be found all around us. What have we gained and lost during this pandemic season? God is with us and ready to help us prune our lives, ready to help us recreate, and resurrect.
The Sound of Resurrection
This week, Rev. William Critzman connects our ears and hearts to all we’ve heard this past year. With God’s help we have much to learn about good shepherds, the behavior of flocks, and the idols that we name and dismantle together.
A Rejecting Sort of Faith
With the support of community wisdom Rev. William Critzman explores the space between rejection and resurrection. As we celebrate this Easter season, we do so knowing that God always has new things in store.
Not Going Back, Moving Forward
This Easter Sunday Rev. William Critzman explores the sacred metaphor and symbolism of both this day and this season of resurrection. As we feel the new life all around us, we know we cannot go back!
The Collegiate Church of the City of New York Commemorates a Year of COVID-19
As we consider all that has occurred, been lost and changed over the past year the Collegiate Church of New York stands together in worship and prayer as a church unified.
On Being Mindful
Grace may appear as a rainbow; it may appear when things don’t go as planned. Rev. William Critzman reminds the West End community of the shimmering colors of God’s love, God’s promises, and how the journey itself forms us.
Location, Location, Location
Like the warmth of a blanket, the love of those who came before us gird our souls. As West End celebrates Black History Month, Rev. Bridget Anthony guides us to the ongoing love of Black women who helped form her.
Love’s Authority
Why do we make art? What of authority? Rev. William Critzman guides us through love, art-making, and the sacred nature of each as we consider the artists we are becoming.
Can You Feel It?
Can you feel it? Like Simeon and Anna knew, the great hope of what is yet to come finds its way into our bones. Rev. Anthony’s good word for the year to come as we renew, rebuild and rediscover who we are meant to be with God’s help.