Joy Sunday says it all. The third Sunday of Advent is marked by the pink- or rose-colored candle in the wreath in many traditions. It
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This Week’s Message
It is the second Sunday of Advent, and we’re making a declaration. Whether we are heeding the call of John the Baptist to “bear fruit
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Our introduction to the message this week refers to this illustration “Genealogy of Christ” by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman, which was inspired by Matthew 1:1-17.
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“What does it mean to speak of the Christ who reigns, or Christ the king?” What is clear from the gospel accounts is that Jesus
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What are you distracted by? That’s a question underlying our text this week. What is it that draws your attention away from your call to
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The gospel writers love these stories—stories where Jesus gets the better of those who seek to outsmart him appear in all the gospels. But a
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What would it be like to encounter Jesus face to face? That’s the question this series sets out to help us answer. We can’t know, of
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This week, we’re about giving our all. About living full out, about being alive the way Jesus describes living. “I have come that they might
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This week is about distractions. Well, not about distractions so much as about loss of focus, or maybe even loss of trust in the foundations
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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 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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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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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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