The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Jul 26th
Yes, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Rachel, Laban and Leah, too, are a mess. But we really are all a slave to something…. but we are also all created, formed by a God who loves us too…
Sunday Worship Archives
Below are links to the full videos of past worship services along with the bulletin and lectionary Bible passages for each week.
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The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Jul 19th
Jacob has learned that this gracious God does not judge or chastise him but meets Jacob right where he is in his mess…. God meets us right in our mess, and he loves us. - Rev. Dr. Terence Z. Gadsden,…
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The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Jul 12th
I hope that this story will enable us to see that your life story, and mine, are never too messed up or too damaged or too insignificant to be included in God’s grand, great, ongoing story. - Martha Berg, guest…
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The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Jul 5th
There is nothing in your life or mine that God doesn’t care about, or that God isn’t intimately aware of, or even that could stop God from keeping God’s promise. - Pastor Libby
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The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Jun 28th
Abraham is present and faithful in these moments of absolute terror... even in this moment that is beyond all understanding, Abraham is listening, and God is working out His purposes. - Anders Johnson, guest preacher
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The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Jun 21st
Just when we’re tempted to think this story is only about Abraham and his family and God’s covenant with Isaac, scripture stops and says, “Don’t miss the people being left behind.” - Pastor Jeanette
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The Third Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Jun 14th
We at North Park Covenant Church do work hard as people of good will at feeding and welcoming and curing and sheltering, but here is the kicker: Jesus commanded his followers to do these things as signs of the Kingdom…
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The Second Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Jun 7th
They key here is that it is through this man and this man’s family that God intends to rescue God’s people from themselves. God’s plan is to rescue all of the people of the earth through Abram… and while it…
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Trinity Sunday Sun, May 31st
God brought everything into being out of love and created humans to dwell in it with a special position in creation and history: to care for it with the same kind of love and intention in which it was created,…
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Pentecost Sunday Sun, May 24th
The Holy Spirit is love. The Holy Spirit pours love into us, and that is a superpower.- Gaius Berg, guest preacher