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03/23/2025 - Seven Last Words: Part Three - Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit At the moment of greatest agony on the cross, Jesus instinctively turned to the ancient prayers of his faith tradition, revealing how deeply those words had shaped his heart. His example...

03/16/2025 - Seven Last Words: Part Two - Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise This Sunday we discuss Jesus’s words to the “criminal” being crucified next to him. This interaction has many historical, spiritual, and theological resonances. But perhaps the thing we...

03/09/2025 - Seven Last Words: Part One - Father Forgive Them "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." These words from Jesus on the cross invite us into a deeper understanding of both the grace and challenge embedded in authentic forgiveness. Our...

03/02/2025 - Annual Meeting 2025 On Sunday, March 2nd, our worship service ended with our Annual Meeting where we celebrated our church's accomplishments, shared our vision for the future, and discussed how we're stewarding our resources to further God's work in our...

03/02/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Nine: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory Forever This Sunday, we conclude our series on the Lord‘s prayer with the doxology. What does this section about the kingdom, the power, and the glory, which appears in some versions of...

02/23/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Eight: Deliver Us From Evil From movie villains to social media algorithms, evil takes many forms. In this exploration of the Lord’s Prayer’s plea for deliverance from evil, we examine how Jesus’ wilderness temptations reveal...

02/16/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Seven: Lead Us Not Into Temptation This Sunday, we arrive at the line of the Lord's Prayer: 'Lead us not into temptation.' However, 'temptation' can also be translated as 'testing.' How does this translation change the way we look...

02/09/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Six: Forgive Us Our Trespasses Forgiveness isn't only personal - it's also communal. In this sermon on 'forgive us our trespasses,' we explore how Germany's approach to historical memory offers lessons for our own angry, divided...

02/02/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Five: Our Daily Bread When Jesus tells us to pray for our daily bread, he is not introducing a new concept. Rather he is building on centuries of tradition. This Sunday we look at the stories Jesus is pointing us to with this line...

01/26/2025 - The Lord's Prayer - Part Four: Thy Kingdom Come With divine timing (or perhaps divine humor), this sermon on "Thy Kingdom Come" lands during inauguration week, inviting us to examine what this prayer truly demands of us. Through stories of ancient Rome...