There are two dimensions to our text for this week.. The inward and the outward might be one way to describe them. A statement of
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This Week’s Message
This series is about claiming the faith we’ve been given with boldness and enthusiasm. But it is also about honoring those from whom we learned
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This Week’s Message
Worship is a model of life in the kin-dom of God. What the prophets described, what Mary sang, what the law defines, what Jesus lived
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This Week’s Message
Worship needs a vision that looks first to God and then to community within and then to the world beyond the walls. We are driven
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Where do we begin as we gather for worship today? By asking God to open our eyes to the possibilities all around us, to the
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Why do we tell stories? Stories have power and have an effect beyond the words of the story. Stories shape our experience of the world;
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God is on our side—until we’re not. Wait, does that make sense? God is on our side, but sometimes we wander away. Sometimes we are
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We’re back on more comfortable ground this week. Here we have the promise of presence. Supposedly, John Wesley’s final words were “best thing of all,
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Isaiah is asking us, if we sometimes lose perspective when it comes to the church, God’s vineyard. The question for worship today might be, “What
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If there was a stage you’d probably prefer to skip, it would be this one. Isaiah seems at his grumpiest height. Sure, that’s the rep
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