Sermons by Peter Tupou

“The Unproductive Fig Tree”

 Luke 13: 1 – 9 – Peter Tupou – This Sunday, we look at how this one tree can show us all we need to know about being productive. How we can horde precious resources by only watering two days a week, how we can exploit labor to increase profits, and how we can climb those barren and brittle branches to the…

“The Joyful Eastertide”

Luke 24: 36 – 49 Peter Tupou provides our message today. This year, for some, the joy of Easter felt diminished. Families celebrated the holiday in smaller units separate from one another. Grandparents enjoyed their grandchildren from the other side of a computer screen, children searched for Easter eggs in their own homes, and congregations struggled to implement technology to replicate fellowship.…

“Serious as a Heart Attack”

1 Corinthians 12: 25 – 27, Peter Tupou – “Trendy sayings like “Teamwork makes the dream work” or “You can’t have community without unity” are popular slogans in justice work. If anyone could have done it alone, you think it would’ve been Jesus. But even he surrounded himself with a community, the same community to which we are called to be part…

Good News/Fake News

Prayer: In the name of God who creates, who redeems, and who sustains. Amen. So an angel appeared and told Mary she was to be the virgin mother of the Son of God? Did Herod really slaughter the innocent children in his attempt to remove the threat of a newborn king? Did a star really…

A Song in the Air: Grown-Up Christmas List

Deep peace of the running wave to you. Deep peace of the flowing air to you. Deep peace of the quiet earth to you. Deep peace of the shining stars to you. Deep peace of the gentle night to you. Deep peace of Christ, the Light of the World to you. I thought it fitting…

My Saints

By Peter Tupou RUCC Director of Youth & Young Adult Ministries Scripture: Isaiah 58: 9-12 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry for help, and he will say, Here I am. If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, if you…