The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Aug 16th
What good is a God who cannot or will not prevent evil? The answer seems to be in God’s uncontrolling love. - Pastor Libby
Below are links to the full videos of past worship services along with the bulletin and lectionary Bible passages for each week.
What good is a God who cannot or will not prevent evil? The answer seems to be in God’s uncontrolling love. - Pastor Libby
How will God work out God's promise now? And how will the people learn to live in and trust the promise? - Pastor Libby
We need to learn to wrestle to the end of our strength and beyond and say, “I will not let you go when you bless me," just like Jacob. - Pastor Jeff
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…
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,…
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…
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
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
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
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…