The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost Sun, Oct 20th
Creator God, you have made a wild and wondrous world, and suffering is a part of it. And no matter how much we wish that were not so and how hard we attempt to escape from the pain, we find…
Below are links to the full videos of past worship services along with the bulletin and lectionary Bible passages for each week.
Creator God, you have made a wild and wondrous world, and suffering is a part of it. And no matter how much we wish that were not so and how hard we attempt to escape from the pain, we find…
Job knows he hasn't done anything to displease God,... but Job does have questions for God. Big, big questions. And he wishes that he could sit down and chat with God and ask those questions. Wouldn't that be nice? -…
The book [of Job] doesn't rely on a lot of Israelite or Hebrew culture. It doesn't rely on you being an insider. It wants to speak a message about God's goodness and God's world to everybody. - Pastor Jeff
"...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…