June 26, 2022 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Acts 2:42-47 The community of the early church engaged in communal practices of belonging and living into this new reality of Jew and Gentile doing life and faith together. In this seminal passage we find that love is belonging, love is a verb and love is solidarity. In light […]
June 19, 2022 | Bobby Harrison | Acts 2:37-38 As the people gathered in Acts 2 hear the gospel proclaimed, they were moved to respond with their whole hearts. The Apostle Peter used the language of “repentance” here. And we as a church leaned into this truth through the framework of “returning”. May this message […]
June 12, 2022 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Matt. 3:13-17 (FNV and NASB) As we celebrate our church’s first baptism service, we are invited to remember our own baptism. In Jesus’ baptism, we see the power of remembrance and the grace of God’s belovedness bestowed on Jesus for his work. Remember your belovedness for in it […]
June 5, 2022 | Bobby Harrison | Acts 2, Acts 1, Joel 2-3 On Pentecost Sunday, we center in on Acts 2. And we look at not only the Holy Spirit flame, but we also take a step back to see how the disciples prepared for the fire to come. We then turned to the […]
May 22, 2022 | Sandy Lee Schaup | John 21:1-4 Even after Jesus’ resurrection, the disciples aren’t yet OK as seen in their hiding and in their returning to fish. They seem to be in process, maybe still in pain and confusion. Jesus does the unexpected and comes TO them and serves them and rebuilds […]
May 8, 2022 | Bobby Harrison | Matthew 27 & 28 In this message, we look at the guards at the tomb as they attempt to prevent the miracle of resurrection. We ask ourselves how we do this as well in our day. What are the walls we build when we choose not to experience […]
May 1, 2022 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Luke 24:36-49 God doesn’t give up on us and seeks us in life as well as in death. Jesus seeks us in the beginning, in the middle, and at the end. In this resurrection encounter, Jesus walks through walls to get to our hearts. He extends a benediction […]
April 24, 2022 | Bobby Harrison | Acts 1:1-11, Luke 24 As we begin our new sermon series — Resurrections — we do so by starting in Acts 1. We look at Jesus returning to his disciples to prove he was alive again, and to call them to bear witness known as the Body of […]
April 17, 2022 | Inés Velásquez-McBryde | Luke 24:1-12 Why do you look for the living among the dead? Why do you look for the Living One among dead places, dead institutions, dead situations where there aren’t signs of his life? The angels encourage the women at the garden tomb to remember the words of […]
April 10, 2022 | Nicola Patton | Gen. 39, 45; Matt. 21 The story of Joseph and the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday are familiar to us. But they are not only stories about power. They are also stories about presence because before we need ruling, we need healing. The with-ness of […]