Posts with the category “liturgies”
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September 8, 2024
September 2nd, 2024
We will explore the four freedoms that FDR spoke about and Norman Rockwell illustrated: The freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear.... Read More
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September 1, 2024
August 26th, 2024
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God ... Read More
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August 25, 2024
August 19th, 2024
Scripture Reading
John 1:5; Ephesians 5:8; 1 John 2:6
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.
for once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as c... Read More
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August 18, 2024
August 13th, 2024
As we stand on the threshold of this sacred time, we leave behind the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. We lay aside our distractions and our worries, stepping into Your presence with hearts open ... Read More
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August 11, 2024
August 6th, 2024
As we stand on the threshold of this sacred time, we leave behind the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. We lay aside our distractions and our worries, stepping into Your presence with hearts open ... Read More
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July 28, 2024
July 24th, 2024
Finding Nemo- The Depth of God’s Love
Rev. David Petty
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July 21, 2024
July 16th, 2024
Shawshank Redemption: Redeemed for a Purpose... Read More
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July 14, 2024
July 8th, 2024
“We’re not in Kansas Anymore: Our life in faith takes us into a new reality.â€... Read More
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July 7, 2024
July 3rd, 2024
In his sermon this Sunday Pastor Donnie will address an issue that Christians have faced since the beginning of the early church. Where do our loyalties lie, God or country?... Read More
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June 30, 2024
June 26th, 2024
Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not to your own interests but to the interests of others.... Read More
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June 23, 2024
June 17th, 2024
Today, we continue on our Journey as we explore "Life Outside the Church" - Not that we are leaving the church, but that we are taking the church outside these walls and pairing our faith with our act... Read More
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June 16, 2024
June 12th, 2024
Today, we continue on our Journey as we explore "Life Outside the Church" - Not that we are leaving the church, but that we are taking the church outside these walls and pairing our faith with our act... Read More
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June 9, 2024
June 6th, 2024
Today, we embark on a new Journey as we will begin to explore "Life Outside the Church" - Not that we are leaving the church, but that we are taking the church outside these walls and pairing our fait... Read More
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June 2, 2024 Youth Sunday
May 30th, 2024
Today we celebrate our youth and the Graduates of the church.... Read More
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May 26, 2024 Liturgy
May 22nd, 2024
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the testimony of God to you with superior speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jes... Read More
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May 19, 2024 Pentecost
May 16th, 2024
Our final service of this series offers the vision of the New Creation — a world where we are no longer strangers or aliens because of our differences. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been a Ch... Read More
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May 12, 2024
May 9th, 2024
As disciples of Jesus, we are called to believe that living a new way is possible, and also to share that good news with others. Not all of us are called or equipped to preach, heal, or cast out demon... Read More
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May 1, 2024
May 1st, 2024
When we tend to our relationship with God, we connect with the power of new life and healing. Sometimes there are wounds that have remained with us over the years and we continue to “bleed†even t... Read More
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April 28, 2024
April 24th, 2024
The poet Mary Oliver asks in one of her works, “what are you going to do with your one wild, precious life?†The Apostle Paul is trying to spread the Gospel news of new life in Christ but new Chri... Read More
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April 21, 2024
April 16th, 2024
Every little thing we do with compassion is a small seed that can sprout into good things beyond our imagining. Like “paying it forward†or “random acts of kindness,†we can tend a new creatio... Read More
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April 14, 2024
April 10th, 2024
Tending a new creation may involve the creation or expansion of our concepts of “family.†In the scripture Jesus confirms that kinship in God’s Realm can go beyond bloodlines. We can re-create f... Read More
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April 7, 2024
April 4th, 2024
As we begin the series, we will look to what Jesus taught about keeping the Sabbath. In order to tend a new creation within us, we focus less on rules, and more about what gives us life and light as a... Read More
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March 31, 2024
March 28th, 2024
Easter is tricky when it comes to faith. We come for the happy ending–the “and then they lived happily ever after.†The resurrection story proclaims hope over despair and life over death, yet we... Read More
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March 29, 2024 7:30 pm Good Friday Service
March 28th, 2024
Some days are just lousy and that doesn’t even begin to cover it. The first recorded use of "guode friday†was in the South English Legendary, a text from 1290. Calling a day “good†was a way ... Read More
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March 17, 2024
March 13th, 2024
The story of Jesus includes many moments around tables, as this was part of his ritual of relationship even to the last. In this fifth week of the Lent season, we will hear a story of love and devotio... Read More
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March 10, 2024
March 7th, 2024
Judgment. Judgment. Judgment. Who among us doesn’t struggle with this… judging others, judging ourselves. And usually we are our own harshest critics. Some preachers have expressed a worry about h... Read More
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March 3, 2024 Liturgy
February 29th, 2024
As we continue our look at what it means to release oppressive expectations about perfection in our lives and in our faith, this week we turn to a harmful idea that the prescription for our fear of fa... Read More
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February 25, 2024
February 21st, 2024
We continue our movement through the Lent season this week with another kind of “letting go.†This week we lament that so much in life is out of our control. This is frustrating to us and so somet... Read More
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February 18, 2024
February 14th, 2024
The liturgical season of Lent developed over the centuries as a time of deepened reflection. Originally a period of preparation for baptisms on Easter Eve, it later became a time for all Christians to... Read More
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Ash Wednesday
February 13th, 2024
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lent season, a time when we aspire to make some room for deeper introspection and practices that will draw us into the love and assurance of faith. But sometim... Read More
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February 11, 2024
February 7th, 2024
Whether this Psalm was aspirational (written before the exile ended) or was a reflection of what was happening already, the last verse reminds us that we can keep hope even in our waiting because Godâ... Read More
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February 4, 2024
February 1st, 2024
This Psalm is the first of several that begin, “Alleluia†It is like the moment we hear good news that we have been waiting for and we let out a “hoop and a holler†or a “woo hoo†The mixt... Read More
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January 28, 2024
January 25th, 2024
Written in a time when the Hebrew faith claimed one God while other faiths around them claimed many, the point of this Psalm seems to be making the case for the Holy “One and Only.†But it also na... Read More
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January 21, 2024
January 18th, 2024
The Hebrew poets made sure to highlight that their God was not one so high and mighty (like other gods worshiped by their neighbors) that the people could not “know†God and be known fully and won... Read More
January 14, 2024
January 11th, 2024
The repetition in this Psalm (“the voice of ADONAIâ€) points to this literature’s musical origins as an earthly and heavenly call for us to worship the One who is in all things, including the sto... Read More
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January 7, 2024
January 4th, 2024
We begin a new worship series today that we pray will bring a “breather†and a sense of assurance to us all. Life is a series of exclamations from “O No†to “Help†to “Oh Yeahâ€. We ca... Read More