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Sin: The Series – Part Two – The Story of Sin
10/10/2021 – Sin: The Series – Part Two – The Story of Sin Genesis 4:8-24. As the story of sin moves from Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel and to Cain's descendant Lamech, how is sin growing and changing? And what does that tell us about our world today? Our services are...
Sin: The Series – Part One – Sin is bigger than “sins”
10/03/2021 – Sin: The Series – Part One – Sin is Bigger than "sins" Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7, 22-24; 4:1-16. In the modern American Church it often seems like we've been given two bad options with sin. We either talk about a reductionist vision of sin that's exclusively...
The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Four – Be Good to the Baby
09/26/2021 – The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Four – Be Good to the Baby John 4:6-29. "Love your neighbor as yourself." It's the final two words of this command - 'as yourself' - that might be the most difficult. For many of us, the hardest person for us to see...
The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Three – Enemies
09/19/2021 – The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Three – Enemies Mark 12:28-31; Matthew 5:43-48. As followers of Jesus we can't talk about loving our neighbors without the even harder command to love our enemies. What enemies would Jesus have had in mind when he...
The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Two – The Cost
09/12/2021 – The Second Greatest Commandment: Part Two – The Cost Luke 4:16-30. After teaching in the synagogue at Nazareth about God's expansive view of grace and neighbor, Jesus is taken to the outskirts of town to be thrown off a cliff. It seems that "loving our...
The Second Greatest Commandment: Part One – Neighbor
09/05/2021 – The Second Greatest Commandment: Part One – Neighbor Mark 12:28-34. When the teacher of the law asked which commandment was most important, Jesus gave a two-part answer. This month we focus on the second part. What does it mean for us to love our...
The Greatest Commandment: Part Five – Love Your Neighbor (Love Mercy)
08/29/2021 – The Greatest Commandment: Part Five – Love Your Neighbor (Love Mercy) Luke 10:25-37. For Part Five of our series on The Greatest Commandment, special guest Reverend Chalice Overy brought a powerful word about mercy from Jesus' well-known parable of the...
The Greatest Commandment: Part Four – Strength
08/22/2021 – The Greatest Commandment: Part Four – Strength. Mark 12:28-34. In the Great Commandment, the final pathway by which we are told to love God is with our strength. This word needs to be untangled from some modern (and narrow) uses of the word, and...
The Greatest Commandment: Part Three – Mind
08/15/2021 – The Greatest Commandment: Part Three – Mind. Mark 12:28-34. In week 3 of our series on the greatest commandment, we learn about what it means to love God with our mind. (Hint, it has something to do with an elephant.) Our services are now live-streamed...
The Greatest Commandment: Part Two – Soul
08/08/2021 – The Greatest Commandment: Part Two – Soul. Mark 12:28-34. The Hebrew word for soul is Nephesh. As is often the case, words in Hebrew almost always hold a much bigger meaning than the English word we use to translate it. What is our Nephesh? What is our...
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