06/09/2026
CCSM Sermon for June 7, 2026
Rev. Álvaro Durán - "After the End of the World"
https://youtu.be/3p-dNjHc_dk
Drawing on the story of Abram's call to leave everything familiar, Rev. Álvaro Durán explores the biblical meaning of apocalypse not destruction, but revelation. Through the experiences of LGBTQ+ communities, migration, rejection, condemnation, loss, resilience, continuous struggle for justice and unshakable hope, this sermon reflects on what becomes possible when old certainties collapse and hidden truths come to light.
What wisdom do q***r voices offer the Church in a time of fear, division, and change? And what might God be calling us to leave behind so that we can journey more faithfully into the future?
A sermon about courage, community, and the conviction that after every ending, God is still with us and calling us to unimagined futures.
Genesis 12: 1-9
The Holy One said to Abram: Leave your homeland, your relatives, and the household that has shaped you, and go to the land that I will show you. I will help you become a great people. I will bless you and make your name known, so that you may be a blessing to others. I will bless those who bless you, and I will oppose those who seek to harm you. Through you, all the families, peoples, and communities of
the earth will find blessing."
So Abram set out as God had directed, and Lot traveled with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. He took Sarai, his spouse, Lot, his nephew, all the possessions they had gathered, and all the members of their household who were with them in Haran, and together they journeyed toward the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan, Abram traveled through the land as far as Shechem, to the sacred oak of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanite people lived in the land.
Then the Holy One appeared to Abram and said: "To your descendants and to the generations that come after you, I will give this land." There Abram built an altar to the God, who had appeared to him. From there he moved into the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and called upon the name of God. Then Abram continued his journey, moving from place to place toward the Negeb.
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