The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Sep 29th
"...the book of Esther speaks to God at work through what seems like coincidence." - Pastor Libby
Below are links to the full videos of past worship services along with the bulletin and lectionary Bible passages for each week.
"...the book of Esther speaks to God at work through what seems like coincidence." - Pastor Libby
If we assume [Proverbs 31] should only be applied to women, we fail to see that its call to wisdom casts a much wider net.... Reading Proverbs 31 as a passage about a woman showing other women what they need…
Every day, as followers of Christ and as sinful human beings, we have choices to make: whether we continue to follow Christ or not, whether we will continue to serve neighbor or not, whether we will choose to follow God's…
Go in God's wisdom and the fear of the Lord. Share your bread with the poor and do not exploit the life of another. And may you seek, each day, to live well in God's great world, for God's glory…
...what I am confident in, is the Song [of Songs] is intended to work on both levels. It's a "Yay and Amen" to human love, and it's a "Yay and Amen" to divine and human love, and so, to read…
Place matters…. Do you remember, viscerally, a place in which you encountered God? - Pastor Libby
It doesn't take a lot of reading around the edges in 1 Kings to see that this ideal moment [of Solomon choosing wisdom, resulting in God's deep pleasure] is not the whole story, and Solomon was not immune to "poor…
I can't think of a better way for us to live in the pattern of 1st and 2nd Samuel... than to lean into the work that the Spirit is doing in us, to see the truth, and to name both…
If the story ended [with David marrying Bathsheba after all his wrongdoings], then David is just than another jerk in power who got away with a terrible something he shouldn’t have…. But that isn’t the end of the story, and…
God meets us in the mess of our lives. God uses people who have made a complete mess of their life. - Ryan Wendt, guest preacher