Learning Forgiveness
For Lent this year we’re studying forgiveness: Forgiveness from God, forgiveness with one another, giving and receiving. Today we introduce the series…
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Fasting from Injustice
Isaiah 58 is an indictment of those who would embrace religion and spirituality, but not their neighbor. The chapter begins a bit…
Read moreOur Visitation
Luke 19.41-48 is a story about God’s goodness meeting our stubbornness. The peace and belonging we so desperately need are on offer,…
Read moreForgetting, Rejoicing, and Pressing On
What happens when everything you’ve built your life on falls apart and gets thrown away? If you’re St. Paul, you forget what…
Read moreMission, Courage and Suffering
St. Paul writes from prison that his readers should live worthy of the gospel. What does this mean? Is it only about…
Read moreOur Common Work
In this new season we read together 1 Corinthians 12.4-7, 1 Thessalonians 4.9-12, and 2 Thessalonians 3.6-13. What is our common work…
Read moreThe Conversion of St. Peter
In Acts 10 we read what is often referred to as the conversion of Cornelius, a Roman centurion who as a Gentile…
Read moreThe Ascension
The ascension of Jesus gets overlooked, but it’s a critical story in the drama of salvation and essential to the church’s participation…
Read moreWorking Together
What does it mean to be the church? Today we consider this question as we read and discuss four passages of scripture:…
Read moreDo You Love Me?
We call it The Unity Mission when Unity Fellowship Church and The Alton Mission gather together for worship. The fruit is a…
Read moreCome As You Are
Mark Barigye, our intern this semester from Greenville University, preaches from Mark 5 on the story of Jesus healing Jairus’s daughter and…
Read moreBear Each Other’s Burdens
Concluding our Build Each Other Up series, we talk today about being a community of people who help one another responsibly. We read…
Read moreForgive Each Other
Today we consider one of the most basic–as well as one of the hardest–disciplines to practice in community: forgiveness. We look at…
Read morePray for One Another
We’re finally back after getting snowed out a couple weeks! We pick back up with our Build One Another Up series focusing on the…
Read moreBear with One Another
Creating a healthy community often comes down to graciously helping others with their burdens. Bearing with one another isn’t smiling and pretending…
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After introducing our Building Up and Tearing Down series last week, today we examine the first and most central “one another” in…
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First week in our new series on Christian community called Build Each Other Up. After a demonstration with the kids on how…
Read moreEpiphany
Epiphany comes after the twelve days of Christmas, on which we celebrate the shining forth of the glory of God in Jesus….
Read moreHope for Our Community
Paul Militzer shares about his work as Executive Director of the Community Hope Center, and preaches a message of hope from what…
Read morePray for Rain
“Everything is meaningless” doesn’t sound like good news. In Ecclesiastes 1.2-11 we get a sense of the tiresome, circular nature of the…
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