Thy Kingdom Come: Always a Bridesmaid
This Sunday we will celebrate a baptism, welcoming a new child into the family of God. Pastor Lauren begins a new sermon series this Sunday entitled: “Thy Kingdom Come”. In these last weeks of the...
The Both-And Life: Liberated and Bound
Today we celebrate Reformation Sunday. This is the anniversary of the date when Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses (faith statements) to the door of the Church in Wittenberg, sparking the Protestant Reformation. We also...
The Both-And Life: Stamped and Subservient
The 21st Sunday of Pentecost This week, Pastor Lauren continues her sermon series highlighting the duplicity of our relationship with God. Our sermon text for this week is Matthew 22:15-22. In this text, the religious...
The Both-And Life: Invited and Insufferable
The 20th Sunday After Pentecost Pastor Lauren continues her sermon series “The Both/And Life”, which delves into the duality of our faith. Her sermon this week is based on the Gospel text from Matthew 22:...
The Both-And Life: Welcome and Wild
Sunday October 4 – Pentecost XIX This is a short recording of our sermon from Sunday October 4th. Our sermon text for this week comes from John 1:1-5. This week, Pr. Lauren begins a new...
Community: When Words Are Not Enough
The 18th Sunday After Pentecost This week, Pastor Lauren continues her sermon series on Community. Our Gospel text for this week is from Matthew 21:23-32. In this passage, Jesus begins teaching in the temple in...
Community: When It Doesn’t Seem Fair
The 15th Sunday After Pentecost This Sunday Pastor Lauren continues her sermon series “Community: A Service Manual”. Her sermon this week is based on the Gospel text from Matthew 20: 1-16. In this passage, Jesus...
Community: When Hurt Runs Deep – A Special Jazz Worship
The 16th Sunday After Pentecost Forgiveness is not forgetting that harm happened; it is refusing to let harm have the final word. What does it mean to receive and extend the extravagant forgiveness of God?...
Community: When Things Break
The 15th Sunday after Pentecost Gospel Text: Matthew 18:15-20 Community requires us to tell the truth to one another without turning correction into punishment or exclusion. What does it mean to seek restoration rather than...
Stranger Things: Plot Twist
The 14th Sunday after Pentecost Prelude: Prelude of Hope for Organ (No.1) James Michael Stevens (b.1961) Welcome *Confession and Forgiveness Gathering Song: Rise Up, O Saints of God ...