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 ...
Stranger Things: Identity Crisis
The 13th Sunday After Pentecost
Changing Our Minds
The 12th Sunday After Pentecost This Sunday Pastor Lauren continues her sermon series: “Stranger Things: the Kingdom of the Unexpected”. Her sermon this week is based on the Gospel text from Matthew 15: 21-28. This...
Out of the Boat
The Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost Pastor Lauren continues her sermon series: “Stranger Things: the Kingdom of the Unexpected”, clearly a divine mystery! Her sermon this week is entitled “”Out of the Boat!” based on the...
Enough
The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost This Sunday Pastor Lauren begins a new sermon series: “Stranger Things: the Kingdom of the Unexpected”, clearly a divine mystery! Her sermon this week is entitled “Enough!” based on the...
Hold On To What’s Best
The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost This Sunday we welcome Pastor Kevin Murphy back to Hope as our guest pastor. The gospel text for Pastor Kevin’s sermon will be Matthew 13:51-52. This passage is known as...