Renew the Journey
Text: Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12 Gracious God… May the words of my mouth and the meditations of all of our hearts and minds be acceptable…
Isaiah
Sing! Play! Summer! – Hymn of Promise / In the Garden
Text: Isaiah 46:8-13 I’m just going to say it out loud… these have been some difficult weeks we have shared together: The loss and grief…
Sing! Play! Summer! – Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty
Text: Isaiah 6:1-8 “We keep a troubled vigil at the bedside of the world,” writes Howard Thurman, “Thus we clutch the moment of intimacy in…
Sing! Play! Summer! – Chainbreaker
Text: Isaiah 58:6-9, Psalm 107:10-16 For the first 20 or so years of my life, I understood salvation as one concrete idea: that Jesus died…
Your Greater Purpose
Text: Isaiah 1:10-20 This morning’s scripture… wow. These are the words God speaks to the prophet Isaiah as he is called into service. This is…
Rise Up!
As we gather this morning to worship, we are looking backwards towards these strange individuals who saw a star in a sky and who let…
Prepare the Way
As that short film reminded us, there 65 million refugees and forcibly displaced persons in the world today. That is roughly thirty-two times the number…
Around Every Corner
This summer I have harvested quite a bit of produce from my garden. Tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers in particular. I put up 7 quarts…