Blessed are the Ancestors

 November 3, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | 1 John 1:1-5, 1 Thess 4:13-18, Heb. 12:1-3 Abuelito John writes to a diverse community of churches in 1 John in the latter part of his life. He writes as an old man to churches that had not been eyewitnesses of Jesus, thus highlighting that they had […]

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October 27, 2024 | Armando David Scott-Canchola | Mark 10:46-52 In this service, we “grew young” and center our emerging generation of youth and young adults. It was such a vital moment to acknowledge the growing number of young people who have felt disenfranchised from the American Church. We sat, listened and communally processed the […]

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Blessed are the Resisters

October 20, 2024 | Gillian Garcia | Jeremiah 29:4-11 (NRSV) In this sermon, guest preacher Gillian Garcia draws a parallel between the Babylonian Exile and the Filipino American experience to point out that God calls God’s people in exile (be it an external, geographical exile, or an internal kind of exile) to recover their humanity. […]

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Blessed are the Accused

 October 13, 2024 | Armando David Scott-Canchola | Mark 1:21-24, 3:20-35 In this series, we have drawn from the margins of scripture to see how God is setting a pattern of disruptive radical inclusion. In this sermon by Pastor Armando, we explore how this belonging reaches its culmination in God becoming flesh to dwell […]

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Blessed are the Embodied

 October 6, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Psalm 139 v1-16 Belonging begins IN our bodies and belonging is cultivated in community. The beginning of our belonging begins in the womb of God’s imagination and in the womb of our mothers who carried us. In Psalm 139 we see that Creator God who gave us […]

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Blessed are the Little Ones

 September 29, 2024 | Janet Hale | Matthew 19:14 Our very own Janet Hale, a kindergarten teacher of 30 years, teaches us how Jesus shows us his true nature by welcoming children into the kin-dom. She shares provocative truths about how children have taught her the inclusive love of God and how to connect […]

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Blessed are the Minimized

 September 22, 2024 | Maren Jo Schneider | Genesis 24 We’ve all heard that we worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but when you read Genesis like an English major, it’s not hard to see that a better name would be the God of Abraham, Rebekah, and Jacob. The text designates Rebekah […]

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Blessed are the Powerless

 September 15, 2024 | Nicola Patton | Joshua 2 The story of Rahab teaches us that morality is often a luxury but that God provides for the powerless. God is the God of radical inclusion and a border-crossing God who looks to tear down walls for us to belong together, not so that we […]

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Blessed are the Seen

 September 8, 2024 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Gen 16:7-16 Mother Hagar is the first human and first foreign woman to name God, the God who sees. This is in response to God naming her son, Ishmael, which means, God hears. She finds herself in a difficult predicament after being taken advantage of. Yet, God […]

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