Transcript from last Sunday’s Conversation in Worship Text: 1 Chronicles 15:25-16:3 Katie: Well good morning to all of you! I have some special guests with me here today. They are familiar faces because they have been with you these past two weeks while I have been on vacation. Pastor Paul and Pastor Beth, both from…
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Partially Rendered Heroes
Text: John 13: 12-17 Today, with the images of four of our nation’s greatest presidents before us, we turn in the gospels to a story of a biblical model of leadership. Jesus, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, gets down on his hands and knees and washes the feet of his disciples. As…
Aloha!
Text: Isaiah 43:1-2, 18-19; Psalm 139:7-10 Friends, I’m so excited to travel with all of you, virtually, to Hawaii this morning. As many of you know, these islands hold a special place in my heart because my family has been blessed with the opportunity to visit and spend time not only enjoying the sunshine… but…
New Every Morning
Text: Lamentations 3:19-33 When I was in high school, my youth group took a summer mission trip to the northwest part of our country. I went to a larger church in Cedar Rapids, so we filled an entire bus with our students and chaperones. Our ultimate destination was Seattle, but along the way we stopped…
A Resilient Foundation
Text: Matthew 7:24-25; Ephesians 3:14-19 Who holds you up? What keeps you from toppling? In the midst of storms and fire and viruses and racism and accusation and conflict, how do you not fall apart? When you are juggling kids and work and zoom meetings and the dog and the lawn needs mowed what are…
You Have (Are) a Gift
Text: Romans 12:3-8 As we start off this morning, I want you to find a blank piece of paper… or if you are on Zoom or Facebook, type in the comments or chat window. I want you to think of one thing that you are personally good at. What is one thing that you know…
The Fragility of our Connection
Text: Philippians 2:1-8 Arches National Park is perhaps one of the most iconic and picturesque of the spots we will visit. Three hundred million years ago, give or take, this land lay beneath an ocean. With the ebb and flow of the waters, salt deposits built up hundreds of feet thick. Eventually, pressure turned some…
The Breath of the Spirit (2.0)
note… the original sermon for Pentecost was written over 10 days ago because of staff vacations and our own pre-recording for worship in the age of Covid-19. But I couldn’t rest with this sermon and felt the Spirit keep nudging me to talk about how breath this past week has been stolen from so many……