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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Our 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,…
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We’re going back to the earliest Christmas songs for our Advent series. Specifically, the songs and worship from the beginning of Luke’s…
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The beginning of our new fall sermon series on Philippians. Today we focus on Paul’s greeting and opening prayer (1.1-11). While grace…
Read moreThe Transfiguration
Luke 9.27-36 tells the story of Jesus being transformed in glory on top of a mountain. His disciples see him talking with…
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…
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Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on what we now call Palm Sunday signaled that the promised Messiah had come to do exactly…
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Jed Moody closes our series on Advent of the King and His Kingdom with a sermon on Micah 5.2-5. The promise of peace…
Read moreGetting Ready for the King
Our Advent Series titled Advent of the King and His Kingdom continues with a second look at John the Baptist. We find him…
Read moreAdvent’s Humble Messenger
John the Baptizer comes to prepare the people for the advent of the King and his kingdom. For our first week focusing…
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This Sunday is the beginning of Advent, a season of hope and anticipation to begin the Church year. Today we hear some…
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Today we begin a new summer series on the power of our stories with a look at one 1 Thessalonians 1. The…
Read moreReconciliation Is Hope Made Visible
Unity Fellowship joins us again at the Alton Mission for worship this morning. When we get together, we like to call it…
Read moreHealing Friendships
John 5.1-15 tells the story of Jesus going where people who are disabled, forgotten, and facing poverty gather for healing. There he…
Read moreThe Kingdom of Life
Kristen Gaither preaches on Luke 8.40-56, the story of Jesus raising Jairus’s daughter after an interruption to heal an ailing woman. As…
Read moreThe King’s Appearance
Josh Gaither preaches this morning from 1 Samuel 16.1-13, the story Samuel finding and anointing David as Israel’s king. Samuel, no less…
Read moreSigns Pointing to Redemption
Javi Malave preaches this morning from Genesis 9.8-17, the story of Noah. How do we engage personally and honestly with a story…
Read moreZacchaeus Learns Mercy
From Luke 19.1-10 comes the famous story of Zacchaeus’s encounter with Jesus. Zacchaeus, like the tax collector praying at the temple in…
Read moreHealing for Those Who Can’t Straighten Up
From Luke 13.10-21 comes the story of a woman bent over and unable to straighten up for 18 long years. While Jesus…
Read moreSomething Greater
From Matthew 12.38-42 comes the story of the religious elites demanding a sign from Jesus. “Prove yourself to us,” they say, “and…
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