Author Archives: Galen Zook

December 9th, 2018, Pastor Galen, Second Sunday of Advent Malachi 3:1-4, Luke 3:1-6 Wrong Way on a One-Way Track How many of you have ever been driving in your car or riding a bus or train and realized you were heading the opposite direction of where you wanted to go? I think one of the worstContinueContinue reading “Red Carpet”

December 2nd, 2018, Pastor Galen, First Sunday of Advent Jeremiah 33:14-16, Luke 21:25-36 Fear and Apprehension In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says that people will feel “faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world” (Luke 21:26).  I think this is a fairly apt description of many people in our world today.ContinueContinue reading “Stand”

November 25th, 2018 (Christ the King Sunday), Pastor Galen  2 Samuel 23:1-7 and John 18:33-37 A King Unlike Any Other Today is “Christ the King Sunday,” the final Sunday of the Christian liturgical calendar, the last Sunday before we begin our season of advent. It is fitting that we begin and end the Christian yearContinueContinue reading “Christ the King”

November 18th, 2018, Pastor Galen “And let us consider how we spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together…but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching” (Heb. 10:24-25) What If They Had Given Up? Imagine for a moment that Hampden Church never existed. ImagineContinueContinue reading “Toward Love and Good Deeds (150th Anniversary)”

November 11th, 2018, Pastor Galen Psalm 127; Hebrews 9:24-28 In the classic 1961 film (and the 1998 remake) “the Parent Trap,” two identical twins who had been separated at birth due to their parents’ divorce meet coincidentally at summer camp when they are eleven years old. When they discover that they are twins, they hatch aContinueContinue reading “Dual Roles”