Posts with the category “liturgies”

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

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

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

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

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

Finding Nemo- The Depth of God’s Love Rev. David Petty ...  Read More

Shawshank Redemption: Redeemed for a Purpose...  Read More

“We’re not in Kansas Anymore: Our life in faith takes us into a new reality.”...  Read More

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

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

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

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

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

Today we celebrate our youth and the Graduates of the church....  Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The repetition in this Psalm (“the voice of ADONAI”) 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

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 Yeah”. We ca...  Read More