Enews: Sunday, August 7, 2022
August 7th, 2022 Ninth Sunday of Pentecost Worship Celebration 10am Practicing Prayer How often do you pray? Is it before meals, when you first wake up, or only when there is a dire need? Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, something they already did each day, in order to invite them into a rhythm […]
Enews: Sunday, July 31, 2022
July 31st, 2022 Eighth Sunday of Pentecost Worship Celebration Practicing Prayer Prayer. It’s one of the most essential actions that we do as people of faith. The Bible has about 650 prayers spelled out that people prayed. As a devout Jewish man, Jesus prayed at least 3 times each day, and we have 25 accounts […]
Sunday, July 24, 2022
July 24, 2022 Seventh Sunday of Pentecost Worship Celebration Treasures in Heaven The scripture for this week asks us what we value most. Many of us invest or save for the future, hoping to be responsible caretakers of all that is given to us. That’s a great practice. In the Gospel of Luke, however, those […]
Sunday, July 17, 2022
July 17, 2022 Sixth Sunday of Pentecost Worship Celebration Living Scripture How does scripture come alive for you? When you look at scripture, do you tend to find a way to enter it based upon your own experience, reason, and the history of how you’ve heard it presented? This week, you’re invited to hear the […]
Enews: Sunday, July 10, 2022
July 10, 2022 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Worship Celebration It’s been a long week already. The news of so much loss in Highland Park still holds heavy. Times like these make me grateful for a community to bear the load together. This week, I will be installed as your pastor. It is a time […]
Enews: Sunday, July 3, 2022
July 3, 2022 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Celebration All authority and power is in Christ, who thus gives us authority and power to declare God’s reign and to live into it. No worldly authorities can have power over us in that capacity, and that includes religious and political and societal figures and teachings. No one […]
Enews: Sunday, June 26, 2022
June 23, 2022 Third Sunday after Pentecost Worship Celebration Becoming a disciple of Jesus is about following Jesus and becoming a student (that’s what “disciple” means, after all). Becoming a student of the Way of Christ means having the power and authority that God has given us but not using it in a way of […]
Enews: Sunday, June 19, 2022
June 19, 2022 Second Sunday after Pentecost Father’s Day/Juneteenth Worship Celebration God in your mercy, hear our prayers as we lift up to you the community of Uvalde, TX. Sometimes we are burned out to the point we can’t try something new. We’d rather stick with the old patterns even though they lead to dead […]
Sunday, June 12, 2022
June 12, 2022 Trinity Sunday Worship Celebration God in your mercy, hear our prayers as we lift up to you the community of Uvalde, TX. The Trinity is a mystery, as is the work of the Holy Spirit, Wisdom among us. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of understanding,” Psalm 110:10 teaches us, […]
Enews: Sunday, June 5, 2022
June 5, 2022 Pentecost Sunday Service of Holy Communion Worship Celebration God in your mercy, hear our prayers as we lift up to you the community of Uvalde, TX. Despite the good news of the resurrection, the post-Easter disciples were a rather tentative bunch. They had lost their leader. There was dissension all around them. […]
