So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt?? Pastor Michelle continues her sermon series, Reset: A New Normal. Making Good Use of a Crisis Through the Narrative of Journey: An After Easter Series in Disquieting Times. As we continue to follow the Israelites this week, they are tired of travelling and eating manna and are ready to head back to Egypt!…
Are We There Yet?The Roundabout Way Pastor Michelle continues her sermon series, Reset: A New Normal – Making Good Use of a Crisis Through the Narrative of Journey: An After Easter Series in Disquieting Times. As we continue to follow the Israelites, God will take them and Moses the long way around in Exodus 13: 17-22 (The Roundabout Way, the…
Leap of Faith: Leaving Egypt; Red Sea Crossing We’ll be reading Exodus 12: 29-39 (Egypt Mourns; the Israelites leave while the bread is still rising) and Exodus 14 (Crossing the Red Sea) to prepare for the sermon. As we follow the Israelites across the “never land-like” Judean wilderness, we may find ourselves in a similar place of wandering and make…
Talk to the Hand – Letting Go; Leaving Home This week, Pastor Michelle continues her sermon series on Exodus called “Reset: A New Normal – Making Good Use of a Crisis Through the Narrative of Journey.” In this week’s sermon, “Talk to the Hand! Letting Go; Leaving Home,” Moses doesn’t want to leave home, but God doesn’t take “no” for…
The Times They Are a Changing This Sunday, Pastor Michelle begins a TIMELY NEW SERIES entitled RESET: A New Normal Making Good Use of a Crisis through the Narrative of Journey. Join us over the next several weeks as we trek with the Israelites across the “never land-like” Judean wilderness. As we find ourselves in a similar place of wandering,…
We Make the Road By Walking: A Narrative that Never Gets Old Welcome to Online Worship You can keep this order of worship open in another tab on your computer or print a copy to follow along. A Palm Sunday Call to Worship Bob Pearson This is the day that the Lord has made: let us rejoice and be glad in…
Pastor Michelle continues her Lenten Sermon Series, The Contemporary Monastic with Week Five, ” Worship: Responding to Divine Initiative and Entering with Holy Expectancy.” If you subscribe to our QuickNews, you received a special Sunday Worship QuickNews on Sunday morning that included the order of worship. You can print it or keep it on another tab on your computer to follow along during the service! A variety of…
Pastor Michelle continues her sermon series called “The Contemporary Monastic” here with another discipline for Lent in “Week 2 – Humility: An Unpopular or Suspect Virtue.” Read John 13: 1-17 & Selections from Philippians 2 and consider the questions below in preparation for the message. Questions for This sermon (and beyond) 1. What are the greatest gifts in practicing humility?…
Bounty: A Stewardship Series Week 1 Pastor Michelle kicked off her sermon series “Bounty: A Stewardship Series” with “Week 1: When You Come Upon a Giant(s)…” Be sure to read Numbers 13 and consider the questions below in preparation for the message. Questions for Reflection: What/who are the giants in your life (not the welcome kind). What makes them so?…
All Saints Sunday Enjoy our All Saints Day worship. We “call the roll” of those from our church family who have gone on before us, light a candle for each of them and toll a bell as we remember them. Read Ephesians 1: 11-12, 15-23 in preparation for Pastor Michelle’s sermon, Inheritance Day. Resource Referenced: Hometown Tales, Recollections of Kindness, Peace and Joy , by Philip Gulley, Harper…
Pastor Michelle will finish her Transitions Sermon Series this Sunday with “It’s a (Scary) Wonderful New Life.” Read John 11: 1-6, 11-17 and 33-44 and consider the questions below in preparation for worship. Questions for Reflection According to William Bridges (Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes), the neutral zone is only meant to be temporary state. “It is, as they say, a…
