Restoration Is the Goal
Our Lent series on forgiveness jumps to the end goal of forgiveness, which is the restoration of God’s good. We heed St….
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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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We’re continuing our series The Stories We Tell Ourselves, in which we survey stories from scripture that show us who God is, who…
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 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…
Read moreThe Way of Salvation
Paul tells Titus to teach about the grace that trains us. Titus 2.11-15 is a window into a more complete picture of…
Read moreThe Mercy You Give, The Mercy You Get
Jesus is straightforward in Matthew 5.7: “Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy.” Can mercy from God really be…
Read moreDisciples, Advocates, and Adversaries
From Luke 15.1-3, 11-32 comes the story Jesus tells to sum up the whole story of what he’s doing: the Parable of…
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We’re in the Great Commission again (Matthew 28.16-20) and move on to our next key word: Authority. After some instructions on interpretation…
Read moreThe True Temple
In Mark 11.12-25 Jesus has made the climb to Jerusalem and now the tension in the story is increasing. Jesus walks straight…
Read moreThe Limits of Mercy
In Mark 2.13-17 we read the story of Levi, who was a tax collector working for Herod, the self-styled king of the Jews….
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Reconciliation only happens when we’re willing to forgive. In Colossians 3.12-17 this morning we focus especially on St. Paul’s instruction to forgive as…
Read moreThe Poor Help Us Keep the Sabbath
Our last week addressing the question, Why does the church need the poor? This week we listen to Luke 13.10-17, in which…
Read moreWhy the Church Needs Foster Kids
This is the second week in our series Why the Church Needs You. Katie Myette from The Restore Network came to talk about…
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Seventh Sunday in Easter season. This one from Joshua 3, the story of God parting the waters in a new way when…
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Second sermon in our series Everyday Resurrection during Easter season. Today’s text is Ezekiel 37.1-14, paired with John 20.19-23 a bit later in…
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This is the third sermon in our Lent series Apathy and the Passion titled “Gratitude and Shame” from Colossians 3.12-17.
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Peter Hough’s sermon on Mark 2.1-12: “Growing in Mercy.”
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Peter Hough’s sermon on Luke 2.40-52: “Growing in Grace.”
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The Forgiveness of Sins
Peter Hough’s sermon on 2 Corinthians 5.14-6.10: “The Forgiveness of Sins.”
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