Sermon Scripture: Romans 12:1-2 When congregations begin to grow, there is a natural pull toward activity that is not always sustainable. We start looking for programs to launch, ministries to add, and we begin thinking about what all the other successful churches are doing that we should imitate. Yet we have discovered that activity alone
Sermon Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20, Acts 2:42-47, Hebrews 13:8 Our city (our church) would be unrecognizable by those who first founded this congregation, yet our testimony and our story would feel familiar. We are a remnant of the legacy that they planted and tended a hundred years ago. And what were they planting and tending? A
Sermon Scripture: Hebrews 13:8 In this year's annual church meeting, we celebrate a year of God's steady faithfulness, where ministries grew, recovery deepened, finances steadied, and a hundred-year story kept unfolding. From the Eco-Church certification to the Centennial on the horizon, we are reminded that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and
Sermon Scripture: Acts 2:38-47 On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit did not come to give one hundred and twenty people a private religious experience. The Spirit came to make a people. A new kind of community. A new kind of family that had never existed in the world before. The scripture says three thousand
Sermon Scripture: Luke 24:44-53 Today is the feast of the Ascension of the Lord on the Christian calendar, and it is one of the least observed and most underappreciated feasts the church has. Most of us grew up in traditions that moved quickly from Easter to Pentecost, treating the forty days between them as a
Sermon Scripture: John 14:15-21 Most of us have assumptions about the Holy Spirit that we might not always say out loud, but they shape how we move through our lives of faith.; we believe the Spirit is real, we believe the Spirit moves, and we have seen it in others, in moments of unexpected grace,
Sermon Scripture: John 14:1-14 In the moments of disorientation we inevitably experience in life we can confuse the many emotions and sensations we encounter as a lack of faith. Even worse, the fear, shame, and guilt we feel might be taken out negatively on those we love the most. Today, Jesus meets us in this
Guest Speaker: Dr. Paige ParrySermon Scripture: John 10:1-10 Walk into a forest and look closely at the ground, and you will find a story that runs parallel to our own. A seedling survives not by its own strength, but by the community it finds itself in: mature trees that shelter it from drying winds, fallen
Sermon Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 In a gift economy, wealth means having enough to share, currency is measured in relationships, and the unit of success is “we” rather than “I.” This is because all flourishing is mutual. We could be talking about a shrub full of juicy berries, a handmade gift from a loved one, or
Sermon Scripture: John 20:19-31, Psalm 16 Christ has a habit of showing up in the rooms we have sealed shut, and he always brings the same gift with him. Peace. He does not wait for us to unlock the door or get our courage up, or our theology sorted out; he simply appears, wounds and
